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Translating US underground comix in Italya semiotic perspective on satire and subversion /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Translating US underground comix in Italyby Chiara Polli.
Reminder of title:	a semiotic perspective on satire and subversion /
Author:	Polli, Chiara.
Published:	Cham :Springer Nature Switzerland :2025.
Description:	xxi, 359 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm.
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	Underground comic books, strips, etc.Translations into Italian.United States
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-72886-0
ISBN:	9783031728860$q(electronic bk.)

Translating US underground comix in Italya semiotic perspective on satire and subversion /
Polli, Chiara.

Translating US underground comix in Italya semiotic perspective on satire and subversion /[electronic resource] :by Chiara Polli. - Cham :Springer Nature Switzerland :2025. - xxi, 359 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm. - Palgrave studies in translating and interpreting,2947-5759. - Palgrave studies in translating and interpreting..

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Comics, Comix and Satire: The Language of Subversion -- Chapter 3: Translating Comics: Theoretical Considerations -- Chapter 4: Underground Comix in Italy: Corpus Design -- Chapter 5: Lust in Translation between Omission and Banalisation -- Chapter 6. Addiction and Additions: Translating the Drug Culture in Italy -- Chapter 7. Rewriting Political Struggles: Localisation and (Counter-)Cultural Filtering -- Chapter 8. Insights into Religious Satire and Blasphemous Translations -- Chapter 9. Concluding Remarks.

This book analyses 1960s-1970s US underground comix, a 'counterculture' art form that satirised mainstream values and taboos. The author observes comix in their multimodal components in the original English-language versions and in their Italian translations by unpacking the several layers of verbal and visual meaning-making. She then goes on to scrutinise translation and resemiotisation processes, including modifications, mitigations, and omissions, encompassing socio-historical and cross-cultural perspectives. The book argues that translation, meant to bridge two (counter-)cultures, served as a gatekeeper instead, zooming in on certain themes, while inadvertently overlooking or purposefully manipulating others, with an outcome close to censorship. The volume is divided into nine chapters. Chapter 1 summarises the aims and scope of the volume. Chapter 2 introduces comix as a subversive phenomenon. Chapter 3 illustrates the theoretical and methodological framework of analysis, based on semiotics and multimodality. Chapter 4 presents the corpus of Italian translations, which includes works translated between 1968 and 2022 by both mainstream and alternative publishers. In Chapters 5-8, Italian translations of comix dealing with such controversial themes as sex, drugs, political struggle, and religion are analysed, with qualitative observations of several translations of the same comix provided to highlight changing times, cultural frames, ideologies, editorial policies, and target audiences. Chapter 9 discusses the findings of these observations and maintains that, as a recursive translation strategy, seditious contents were mitigated, trivialised, or censored by adopting light-hearted frames so that potentially problematic contents could be left out. With its linguistic, translational, and intercultural analyses, this volume will be useful for researchers of linguistics, semiotics, translation, and comics studies. Chiara Polli is Assistant Professor of English Linguistics and Translation at the Department of Humanities - Ancient and Modern Languages, Literatures and Civilizations of the University of Perugia, Italy.

ISBN: 9783031728860$q(electronic bk.)

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-031-72886-0doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

1002227
Underground comic books, strips, etc.
--Translations into Italian.--United States

LC Class. No.: PN6725

Dewey Class. No.: 741.5973

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