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Author Hofmeyr, Isabel.

Title The portable Bunyan : a transnational history of The pilgrim's progress / Isabel Hofmeyr
Published Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [2004]
©2004

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 MELB  820.4 B9428 Z/Hop  AVAILABLE
Description xii, 314 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Series Translation/transnation
Translation/transnation.
Contents I: Bunyan in the Protestant Atlantic -- 1. The Congo on Camden Road -- 2. Making Bunyan familiar in the mission domain -- 3. Translating Bunyan -- 4. Mata's hermeneutic: internationally made ways of reading Bunyan -- II: Bunyan, the public sphere, and Africa -- 5. John Bunyan Luthuli: African mission elites and the pilgrim's progress -- 6. Dreams, documents, and passports to heaven: African Christian interpretations of the pilgrim's progress -- 7. African Protestant masculinities in the empire: Ethel M. Dell, Thomas Mofolo, and Mr. Great-heart -- 8. Illustrating Bunyan -- 9. Bunyan in the African novel -- III: Post-Bunyan -- 10. How Bunyan became English -- Lifting the tollgates -- Bunyan translations by language -- A social profile of Bunyan translators
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-306) and index
Subject Bunyan, John, 1628-1688. Pilgrim's progress.
Bunyan, John, 1628-1688 -- Translations into African languages -- History and criticism
Bunyan, John, 1628-1688 -- Appreciation -- Africa.
Bunyan, John, 1628-1688 -- Influence.
English language -- Translating into African languages
Christian fiction, English -- History and criticism.
Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages in literature.
African literature -- English influences.
Translating and interpreting -- Africa.
Christianity and literature -- Africa.
Books and reading -- Africa.
LC no. 2003044491
ISBN 0691116555 (acid-free paper)
9780691116556 (acid-free paper)
0691116563 (paperback: acid-free paper)
9780691116563 (paperback: acid-free paper)