Introduction: Transfer thinking in translation studies: Playing with the black box of cultural transferMaud Gonne & Reine MeylaertsReclaiming the past: Translations from the Anglo-Saxon for the twenty-first centurySusan BassnettFrom Britain to Brussels and back again: On the transfer of national images and linguistic interactions in Charlotte Brontë’s The Professor and its first Dutch and French translationsDirk Delabastita & Maud GonneThe figure of the translator in two Francophone African classicsJean-Marc MouraShort remarks about titles: Translation, transfer… and tradeYves Chevrel & Isabelle Nières-ChevrelTransfer in news translationChristina SchäffnerRussian bears on the move, or how national images are transferredPieter Boulogne & Luc van DoorslaerLegal transfer and translation: The translation of legal and administrative texts in Flanders and Northern Italy during the French Revolution and the Napoleonic periodMichael SchreiberLanguage and translation policies in state-building processes: The case of LithuaniaDainora Maumevičienė, Ramunė Kasperavičienė & Yves GambierTransfer troublesAndrew ChestermanAbout the editors About the authorsIndexInnovative and interdisciplinary approach to transferThe concept of transfer covers the most diverse phenomena of circulation, transformation and reinterpretation of cultural goods across space and time, and are among the driving forces in opening up the field of translation studies. Transfer processes cross linguistic and cultural boundaries and cannot be reduced to simple movements from a source to a target (culture or text). In a time of paradigm shifts, this book aims to explore the potential and interdisciplinary power of transfer as a concept and an analytical tool to account for complex cultural dynamics.The contributions in this book adopt various research angles (literary studies, imagology, translation studies, translator studies, periodical studies, postcolonialism) to study an array of entangled transfer processes that apply to different objects and aspects, ranging from literary texts, legal texts, news, images and identities to ideologies, power asymmetries, titles and heterolingualisms. By embracing a process-oriented way of thinking, all these contributions aim to open the ‘black box’ of transfer in the widest sense.The concept of transfer covers the most diverse phenomena of circulation, transformation and reinterpretation of cultural goods across space and time, and are among the driving forces in opening up the field of translation studies. Transfer processes cross linguistic and cultural boundaries and cannot be reduced to simple movements from a source to a target (culture or text). In a time of paradigm shifts, this book aims to explore the potential and interdisciplinary power of transfer as a concept and an analytical tool to account for complex cultural dynamics.The contributions in this book adopt various research angles (literary studies, imagology, translation studies, translator studies, periodical studies, postcolonialism) to study an array of entangled transfer processes that apply to different objects and aspects, ranging from literary texts, legal texts, news, images and identities to ideologies, power asymmetries, titles and heterolingualisms. By embracing a process-oriented way of thinking, all these contributions aim to open the ‘black box’ of transfer in the widest sense.