Concept of Race in Czech Translations of African-American Literature

Abstract

This paper focuses on the Czech translations of African-American literature. It maps the various functions this literature has served during the Cold War and also problematizes the ways a specific concept of race was developed with the help of these texts.

This paper is partly based on the topic of my dissertation and combines transnational perspective with translatological analysis.

Keywords

• Afroamerican literature
• history of translation
• conceptualization of race
• Cold War