Meaning of bibliomigrancy | Babel Free

Definitions

The movement of books between geographical locations or physical or textual formats.

Examples

“These transformative forces can be located on the traces of “Bibliomigrancy”: an umbrella term that describes the migration of literary works in the form of books from one part of the world to the other.”

“The fourth section consists of an empirical study of three cases of French Caribbean translation bibliomigrancy, where the works of Dany Laferrière, Maryse Condé, and Patrick Chamoiseau are analyzed.”

“The argument that the BNW volumes were primarily bought as souvenirs misses the point, however, that such appropriation in itself represents another example of bibliomigrancy, another case in which the contours of world literature shifted through the physical movements of books.”

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