| The Portable Bunyan: A Transnational History of The Pilgrim''s Progress Subjects: Bunyan John 1628–1688. Pilgrim’s progress; Bunyan John 1628–1688 -- Translations into African languages -- History and criticism; English language -- Translating into African languages; Bunyan John 1628–1688 -- Appreciation -- Africa; Christian fict; How does a book become an international bestseller? What happens to it as it is translated into different languages, contexts, and societies? How is it changed by the intellectual environments it encounters? What does the transnational circulation mean for its reception back home? Exploring the international life of a particularly long-lived and widely traveled book, Isabel Hofmeyr follows The Pilgrim's Progress as it circulates through multiple contexts--and into some 200 languages--focusing on Africa, where 80 of the translations occurred. Isabel Hofmeyr is Professor of African Literature at the University of the Witwatersrand and the author of "We Spend our Years as a Tale that is Told: Oral Historical Storytelling in a South African Chiefdom." |