Modern translation technology has vastly widened literary reach beyond its original worlds

Evidence

Even in countries using a major world language, a significant proportion of new publications are translated from other languages, including some previously little-known languages. The first to benefit from this were the Scandinavians. Nineteenth-century writers like the Norwegian Henrik Ibsen, the Swede August Strindberg, the Danes Hans Andersen and Søren Kierkegaard, were able, through translation, to achieve world fame. Others, geographically, linguistically, and culturally less accessible than the Scandinavians, took a little longer—but only a little. The twentieth century brought such previously hidden talents as the Czech Karel Cˇ apek and, most recently, the Albanian Ismail Kadare before a world audience. — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans, 202

Categorization

• DEFINE: Not especially load-bearing; general narrative about translation’s growth.
• XREF: connects to: Inter-language literary translation machinery in India is poorly institutionalized — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Nations, Classes, Literatures, 495; Global linguistic convergence has increased rather than reduced translation demand. — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans: Interpreting…, 199; Non-Western literature’s exclusion from the canon is a translation problem, not literary exclusion — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Nations, Classes, Literatures, 183 (+4 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Inter-language literary translation machinery in India is poorly institutionalized — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Nations, Classes, Literatures, 495; Global linguistic convergence has increased rather than reduced translation demand. — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans: Interpreting…, 199; Non-Western literature’s exclusion from the canon is a translation problem, not literary exclusion — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Nations, Classes, Literatures, 183 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Third-world literature reaches metropolitan readers through metropolitan-controlled grids #complicates (0.85) — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 190
• Non-Western literature reaches readers mediated by metropolitan selection #complicates (0.84) — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 74
• Third World Literature emerged only through the mediating archive of Western languages #complicates (0.80) — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 126