Introduction. Translating ethnicity: linguistic and cultural issues

This thematic issue of EJES addresses the central question of how ethnic identity is conveyed in texts, both original and translated. The five papers in this volume represent a variety of approaches to the topic of ethnicity; they also highlight the different linguistic and cultural perspectives of Anglophone and European discourse about ethnicity. The themes addressed by the authors range from the construction of ethnicity in writing and translation (Vidal and Slapkauskaite), to how the processes of dissemination, translation and reception of English/world literature texts are manipulated (Chandran and Rodrı ´guez Herrera), to European critical perspectives on Anglo-American/post-colonial constructions of ethnic identities in English (Mereu Keating)