Translation covers can embed nationalist mythology within the target culture

Evidence

During the four years remaining before a revised and substantially enlarged edition of IC was issued by Verso, translations appeared in German, Portuguese, and Serbo-Croat. The excellent German version (Die Erfindung der Nation) was published in 1988 in Frankfurt, with a striking cover featuring the Black Forest’s colossal, kitschy Hermannsdenkmal, a nineteenth-century monument celebrating Arminius, ‘Germanic’ military tormentor of Roman emperors Augustus and Tiberius. — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 791

Categorization

• SHARE: The Hermannsdenkmal — a kitschy monument to Arminius — as the cover for a book about imagined communities is a nice ironic detail for someone into German nationalism iconography.
• XREF: connects to: Translations adapt theoretical texts to local literary canons — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on…, 790; Translations of theory books become political interventions in local nationalist struggles. — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on…, 827; A translation can be deployed as an explicit intervention against state ideology — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on…, 813 (+5 more)

Related

• Translations adapt theoretical texts to local literary canons (similarity 0.81)
• Translations of theory books become political interventions in local nationalist struggles. (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Translations of theory books become political interventions in local nationalist struggles. #corroborates (0.90) — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 827
• Translations adapt theoretical texts to local literary canons #expands (0.85) — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 790