Adapting Alterity in Anglophone Scenarios

Diversity and inclusion have not only gained key importance in our times, but they have also been at the core of a wide variety of academic subjects and heterogeneous research methodologies, with particular reference to linguistics, literature, and culture. This edited book seeks to explore how translation and adaptation deal with diversity and inclusion. The topics included in the volume are the following:
Discrimination based on religious prejudice and gender, civil rights in synchronic and diachronic perspectives and different geo-political contexts; diversity/inclusion in education and (social) media; diversity/inclusion in art(s), music, movies and tv series; diversity/inclusion in language, literature, linguistics and translation; diversity/inclusion of style(s) and genre(s); identity and alterity; hegemonic vs lesser spoken languages; hate speech, memories and trauma.
The book will be divided into two sections (Linguistics and Literature) and will address topics such as the alienation and diversity of the translator in the audiovisual field, the adaptation of literary works (in the early modern period, the Victorian age, as well as contemporary works) dealing with the theme of the other, as well as gender issues, racism and LGBT+ rights in political and filmic discourse.

List of Figures
List of Tables
Introduction
Angela Sileo
University of Milan, Italy
Giulia Magazzù
University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy

Part One: Alterity from a Perspective of Literary Criticism
1. “It’s hard to explain, this feeling; it’s like there’s two of me”: Migration and Boundaries in We Need New Names
Alessia Battista
Parthenope University of Naples, Italy – University of Salerno, Italy
2. Postapocalyptic Narrative and Memory and Identity Formation in The Marrow Thieves
Kamelia Talebian Sedehi
Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
3. A (Re)Veil of Mystery: Reflecting on Manipulation and Implication Through Dialogues’ Analysis in Agatha Christie’s Works
Eriola Qafzezi
Fan S. Noli University, Albania

Part Two: Adaptation of Otherness in Audiovisual Products
4. Alterity and Alienation in AVT Modalities: Flipping the Coin of (In)Visibility in Audience Reception
Angela Sileo
University of Milan, Italy
5. Performance(s) of Voice Actors in the Simil Sync Technique: The Other Side of Dubbing
Valentina Di Francesco
University of Ferrara, Italy
6. Multimodal Adaptation on TV Screen: Social and Health Commitment in RuPaul’s Drag Race
Roberto Esposito
University of Naples L’Orientale, Italy
7. “Looking at Me, but not Seeing Me”. Representing Intergenerational American Female Otherness through Language and Image in Audiovisual Translation
Dora Renna
University for Foreigners of Siena, Italy

Part Three: Representing Alterity in Language and Communication
8. The Political Speeches of Kamala Harris: A Linguistic Analysis
Giulia Magazzù
University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy
9. The Language of Inclusion in Hillary Clinton’s Speeches on Human Rights
Michele Russo
University of Foggia, Italy
10. Deconstructing Gender Narratives: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Roberta Cowell’s Representation in the British Press
Emma Pasquali
eCampus University of Novedrate, Italy
Author Biographies
Index

Giulia Magazzù obtained a PhD in English Studies at the University of Rome Tor Vergata, where she now works as an adjunct lecturer, after having worked as a post-doc research fellow in English linguistics and translation at “Gabriele d’Annunzio” University of Chieti- Pescara.
Her areas of research are translation studies, audiovisual translation, and critical discourse analysis. In 2020, she published a book on the multimodal translation of musicals, and in 2022, she published her second monograph about the translation of multilingual TV series.

Angela Sileo is a post-doc research fellow at the University of Milan with a project on ELT and accessibility. She obtained a PhD in Humanities at the University of Rome Tor Vergata, where she co-founded the TrAdE research group in 2019. In 2018, she published her second monograph on dubbese. In 2021, she edited a collection of essays on AVT. Her areas of research are AVT (more specifically, dubbing and linear sync), DAT (Didactic AVT) and deaf-inclusive language teaching approaches.

Alterity; Anglophone world; Translation Studies; Audiovisual Translation; Critical Discourse Analysis