In an era of increased mobility and globalisation, a fast growing body of writing originates from authors who live in-between languages and cultures. Transnational perspective offers a new approach to the growing body of cultural texts with an emphasis on experiences of migration, transculturation, bilingualism, and (cultural) translation.

Acknowledgments Introduction: Transnational Literatures and Cultures in/and Translation Jasmina Lukić, Sibelan Forrester and Borbála Faragó PART I. From Transnational to Translational Translational Migrations: Novel Homelands in Monica Ali’s Brick Lane Susan Stanford Friedman Theorizing Women’s Transnational Literatures: Shaping New Female Identities in Europe through Writing and Translation Eleonora Federici and Vita Fortunati Crossing Borders in Perilous Zones: Labors of Transport and Translation in Women Writers of Exile Azade Seyhan Zygmunt Bauman’s Liquidity and Transnational Women’s Literature: Nancy Huston as a Case Study Sonia Fernández Hoyos and Adelina Sánchez Espinosa Travelling Theory as Theory in Translation: Transnational and Transgenerational Perspectives Jasmina Lukić PART II. Reading Across Borders Translation into Dance: Adaptation and Transnational Hellenism in Balanchine’s Apollo Grace Ledbetter Stories from Elsewhere: The City as a Transnational Space in Doris Lessing's Fiction Ágnes Györke The Mobile Imagination in European Women’s Writing: Parallels Between Modern and Postmodern Times Vera Eliasova Romanian Women’s Migration: Online Versus Offline Stories Madalina Nicolaescu From Travelling Memoir to Nomadic Narrative in Kapka Kassabova’s Street without a Name and Twelve Minutes of Love: A Tango Story Maria-Sabina Draga Alexandru Through the Looking-glass: On Recurring Motifs and Devices in the Prose of Dubravka Ugrešić Dejan Ilić PART III. Transnational in Translation It Don’t Mean a Thing If It Ain’t Got That Swing Michael Kandel Translating Folktales: From National to Transnational Sibelan Forrester Transnational Rivalry and Consecration: Croatian and Serbian Writers in Translation Ellen Elias-Bursać China Comes to Warsaw or Warsaw Comes to China: Melech Ravitch’s Travel Poems and Journals Kathrin Hellerstein Notes on the Contributors Index

“Times of Mobility combines the present interest for the crossing of national, cultural and language boundaries, and for the hybridization of identities, with the critical sophistication and political stamina of feminist/gender theories. The result is an innovative and vibrant polyphony of critical voices that cannot fail to engage the readers’ attention. Positioning itself at the intersection of transnational studies, feminist/gender studies, translation studies, postcolonial studies, cultural studies and comparative studies, this text conveys a new critical approach and has the potential to be of interest to critics/scholars/students from different disciplines.”