Latin American Literature and Culture in Translation
Contemporary Critical Approaches
Latin American Literature and Culture in Translation
Contemporary Critical Approaches
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Broad in its scope and forward-thinking in its approach, this book offers a wide-ranging thematic exploration of key debates on contemporary translation in Latin American literature and culture.
Featuring 22 chapters, some of which have been translated themselves, from a variety of the field's leading authorities alongside up-and-coming voices from around the world, it is organized in seven sections that correspond to fundamental sets of political, literary, and cultural questions that have emerged throughout the continent's history. Sections focus on colonialism, race, gender and sexuality, the archive, creation and authenticity, politics, and world literature to offer a broad and ambitious snapshot of where the field is now as well as where it is going. Each essay demonstrates a way of doing translation studies by looking closely at texts and moments, whilst simultaneously drawing larger conclusions that are applicable to other objects of study.
Mapping emerging trends in this vibrant field, it provides specialists, researchers and students with an invaluable and expansive collection of current research on translation in Latin America.
Table of Contents
Martín Gaspar (Bryn Mawr College, USA)
Part One: Indigenous Languages and Coloniality
1. Scenes of Translation and Interpretation in the Administration of Justice in Spanish America (Sixteenth to Nineteenth Century)
Gertrudis Payàs (Universidad Católica de Temuco, Chile)
Caroline Cunill (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, EHESS, France)
2. Between Orality and Writing, Roberto Viereck Salinas (Concordia University, Canada)
3. Decentering Self-Translation in Indigenous Latin American Literature, Paola Mancosu (University of Milan, Italy)
Part Two: Gender and Sexuality
4. A Battle of Expectations, Leah Leone Anderson (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA)
5. Homoerotic Desire from French to Spanish, Andrea Pagni (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany)
6. Translating Gayness, María Julia Rossi (CUNY, John Jay College, USA)
7. Translating Contemporary Latin American Women Dramatists, Sophie Stevens (University of London, UK)
Part Three: Race
8. “Os Beiços da Tia Nastácia”, John Milton (São Paulo University, Brazil) and Vanete Santana-Dezmann (São Paulo University, Brazil)
9. Translation, Race and Gender, Luciana de Mesquita Silva (Cefet/Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
Part Four: Archive and Activism
10. Un raté? Álvaro Armando Vasseur, Lucía Campanella, (Marie Sklodowska Curie Postdoctoral Fellow, Spain)
11. Tracing a Translator's Life, María Constanza Guzmán (York University, Canada)
12. Translating as Ecosystem, Robin Myers (Literary Translator)
13. The Tasks of the Translator, Jeffrey Lawrence (Rutgers University, USA)
Part Five: Creation and Authenticity
14. Junot Díaz Translated into Spanish, Mattea Cussel (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain)
15. Julio Cortázar Takes to the Streets, Marcy Schwartz (Rutgers University, USA)
16. Translation and the Notion of Cult Writer, Ingrid Robyn (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA)
17. A Language with No Model, Delfina Cabrera (Universität zu Köln, Germany)
Part Six: Politics
18. From A ilusão americana to La ilusión yanqui, Ori Preuss (Tel Aviv University, Israel)
19. Tobacco, Sugar, and Translation, Victoria Livingstone (Johns Hopkins University, USA)
Part Seven: Classics and World Literature
20. Translation Scenes of a Classic, Sara J. Iriarte (Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazi)
21. Can Xue, Author of Jorge Luis Borges, César Domínguez (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Spain) and Wang Chenchen (Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Spain)
Pan Chao (Shanghai Sanda University, China)
22. A Gender Mask, Martín Gaspar (Bryn Mawr College, USA) and Gonzalo Aguilar (Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Product details
| Published | 12 Nov 2026 |
|---|---|
| Format | Hardback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 368 |
| ISBN | 9781350378759 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Illustrations | 15 bw illus, 12 tables |
| Dimensions | 246 x 189 mm |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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