In transfer. Prospettive sulla letteratura americana tradotta in Italia

The article offers a brief survey of the history of the Italian reception and translation of 20th-century American literature, highlighting that this field of research has been, so far, only of tangential concern to either Italian “americanisti” or italianists/comparatists. The article also addresses some of the interdisciplinary challenges facing this field of research, in which diverse methodologies clash (e.g. Literary transfer theory and Polysystem theory).