Coping with uncertainty, abundance and strife: Decision-making processes of Dutch acquisition editors in the global market for translations

Franssen, Thomas; Kuipers, Giselinde

doi:10.1016/j.poetic.2012.11.001

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“…White and White, 1965;Bystryn, 1978;Greenfeld, 1988;Zolberg, 1995), in the social fabrication of news and news-worthiness (cf. Manning White, 1950;Franssen and Kuipers, 2013;Whitney and Becker, 1982), as well as within peer-review and scientific evaluation itself (cf. Janssen, 1997;Lamont and Huutoniemi, 2011).…”

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Mastering the jazz standard: Sayings and doings of artistic valuation

Nylander

2013

Am J Cult Sociol

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This article examines music auditions of jazz education and the artistic valuation of music performances by gatekeepers working in two prestigious schools. Using the inherent insecurities of the entry-test situation as a site of ethnographic fieldwork, the paper explores the whole chain of valuation needed in order to produce a hierarchical ordinal ranking of the candidates. By drawing attention to the distinction between what is being said and what is being done by the gatekeepers, a structural ambiguity is identified in the selection game: on the one hand, it is dependent on romantic notions of artistic uniqueness (originality, personality, authenticity) and on the other, it relies on the requirements of jurisdiction and equal assessment (numerical grading, standardized repertoire). The artistic doxa of jazz is constituted in opposition to two negative characters, either by framing the candidates as epigones -echoing the standard repertoire too closely -or framing them as heretics, considered as traitors the local interpretation of the standard.

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Mastering the jazz standard: Sayings and doings of artistic valuation

Nylander

2013

Am J Cult Sociol

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“…otherness of literature from different cultures. We wonder if in the future of publishing, besides using the two favourite tools of the trade (gut feeling and sales figures [15]) there will also grow a kind of data-driven market research using tools such as the one we are developing. Publishers could also start using these types of cultural interest measures to enrich their e-books with helpful annotations of difficult/unfamiliar concepts.…”

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Beyond the Book: Linking Books to Wikipedia

Martinez-Ortiz

Koolen

Buschenhenke³

et al. 2015

2015 IEEE 11th International Conference on E-Science

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Abstract-The book translation market is a topic of interest in literary studies, but the reasons why a book is selected for translation are not well understood. The Beyond the Book project investigates whether web resources like Wikipedia can be used to establish the level of cultural bias.This work describes the eScience tools used to estimate the cultural appeal of a book: semantic linking is used to identify key words in the text of the book, and afterwards the revision information from corresponding Wikipedia articles is examined to identify countries that generated a more than average amount of contributions to those articles. Comparison between the number of contributions from two countries on the same set of articles may show with which knowledge the contributors are familiar. We assume a lack of contributions from a country may indicate a gap in the knowledge of readers from that country. We assume that a book dealing with that concept could be more exotic and therefore more appealing for certain readers, while others are therefore less interested in the book. An indication of the 'level of exoticness' thus could help a reader/publisher to decide to read/translate the book or not.Experimental results are presented for four selected books from a set of 564 books written in Dutch or translated into Dutch, assessing their potential appeal for a Canadian audience. A qualitative assessment of quantitative results provides insight into named entities that may indicate a high/low cultural bias towards a book.

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“…Yet, notwithstanding the fact that literary practices evolved over time and that national and transnational literacy fields have become much more commercialised as a result of global competition (Franssen and Kuipers 2013;Tomek 2015), Dutch editors, publishers and other gatekeepers still frequently mobilise an old-school modernist discourse that grounds literary quality in (overlapping) values such as individuality, originality, style, autonomy, neutrality and universality. Their assessment of literature is, however, by no means limited to solely modernist criteria.…”

Section: On Aesthetics Politics and Ethno-racial Diversitymentioning

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“…Their assessment of literature is, however, by no means limited to solely modernist criteria. These cultural professionals use a wide array of repertoires to value genres such as romance or crime fiction (Franssen and Kuipers 2013), yet when it comes to judging novels they seem to resort to a reductive modernist discourse. Interestingly, in the interviews, early-twentieth-century modernist values are particularly used to demarcate between 'pure literature' and 'migrant literature'; it is often posited that the last named focuses too much on (politically loaded) content.…”

Section: On Aesthetics Politics and Ethno-racial Diversitymentioning

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Depoliticising literature, politicising diversity: ethno-racial boundaries in Dutch literary professionals’ aesthetic repertoires

Koren

Delhaye

2017

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Although still a neglected area, over the years a growing body of sociological research on the position of ethno-racial minorities in Western artistic fields has emerged. With this article we aim to contribute to this research area by focusing on ethno-racial diversity in the Dutch literary field. Through indepth interviews, we analyse how gatekeepers mobilise specific cultural repertoires and by doing so draw ethno-racial boundaries when discussing acquisition, assessing quality and positioning themselves in the literary field. We argue that literary publishers and other professionals (selectively) employ an 'old school' modernist repertoire that especially values the formal aspects of literary products, by which non-white writers and publishers concerned with diversity are often positioned in an identity politics framework. Their work is said to take in a less prestigious 'political'/'subjective' position rather than a 'literary'/'universal' one. As such, this paper informs on how gatekeepers' practices shape the position of non-white authors in the Dutch literary field.

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Coping with uncertainty, abundance and strife: Decision-making processes of Dutch acquisition editors in the global market for translations

Cited by 88 publications

References 35 publications

Mastering the jazz standard: Sayings and doings of artistic valuation

Mastering the jazz standard: Sayings and doings of artistic valuation

Beyond the Book: Linking Books to Wikipedia

Depoliticising literature, politicising diversity: ethno-racial boundaries in Dutch literary professionals’ aesthetic repertoires

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