bibliomigrancy

English

Etymology

Coined by literary critic B. Venkat Mani in 2012, from biblio- +‎ migrancy.

Noun

bibliomigrancy (plural bibliomigrancies)

1. The movement of books between geographical locations or physical or textual formats.
   • 2012, B. Venkat Mani, “Bibliomigrancy: Book series and the making of world literature”, in Theo D’haen, David Damrosch, Djelal Kadir, editors, The Routledge Companion to World Literature‎^[1], Routledge, page 289:

     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.

   • 2019, Yvonne Lindqvist, “Translation bibliomigrancy: the case of contemporary French Caribbean literature in Sweden”, in Meta‎^[2], volume 64, number 3, page 601:

     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.

   • 2022, Tobias Boes, “Learning to Read Again: Thomas Mann, the US Army's POW Reeducation Efforts, and the Role of Literature in a Democratic Germany”, in Jennifer M. Kapczynski, Caroline Kita, editors, The Arts of Democratization: Styling Political Sensibilities in Postwar West Germany‎^[3], University of Michigan Press, page 139:

     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.