CFP: “Reading and Translating The Second Sex Globally” Simone de Beauvoir Studies

Call for Papers

Simone de Beauvoir Studies

Special Issue “Reading and Translating The Second Sex Globally”

Guest Editors: Sylvie Chaperon and Marine Rouch

Deadline: March 1, 2020

Since its publication in France in 1949, The Second Sex has been translated into dozens of languages, and each time in a particular editorial, intellectual, and feminist context. Each translation has given rise to different adaptations and transformations of the text, which are later subject to critical receptions and appropriations by ordinary readers.

For this Special Issue (SdBS 31.2, October 2020), SdBS seeks completed articles of 7000-8000 words (in English or in French) that analyze the chains of complex choices implemented by editors and translators, as well as the consequences of these choices on the immediate reception and legacy of the work in diverse contexts. We especially invite submissions on cultural areas that are still underexplored in Beauvoir studies: Northern and Eastern Europe, Africa, Latin America, and Asia. Comparative studies are also encouraged.

Completed papers that follow the SdBS “Instructions for Authors” should be submitted on-line by March 1, 2020 at www.brill.com/sdbs. All submissions will be anonymously reviewed. Submitted articles that are not selected for this Special Issue may be considered for other issues of SdBS.