Translocalities/Translocalidades

Feminist Politics of Translation in the Latin/a Américas

Sonia E. Alvarez, Claudia de Lima Costa, Veronica Feliu, Rebecca Hester, Norma Klahn, Millie Thayer, Sonia E. Alvarez, Claudia de Lima Costa, Veronica Feliu, Rebecca Hester, Norma Klahn, Millie Thayer

• Publisher: Duke University Press Books
• Year: 2014
• Print ISBN:
  9780822356325
  9780822356158
• eBook ISBN:
  9780822376828
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Latin American & Caribbean History
• Index: Social Sciences

Translocalities/Translocalidades is a path-breaking collection of essays on Latin American, Caribbean, and United States–based Latina feminisms and their multiple translations and cross-pollinations. The contributors come from countries throughout the Américas and are based in diverse disciplines, including media studies, literature, Chicana/o studies, and political science. Together, they advocate a hemispheric politics based on the knowledge that today, many sorts of Latin/o-americanidades—Afro, queer, indigenous, feminist, and so on—are constructed through processes of translocation. Latinidad in the South, North and Caribbean "middle" of the Américas, is constituted out of the intersections of the intensified cross-border, transcultural, and translocal flows that characterize contemporary transmigration throughout the hemisphere, from La Paz to Buenos Aires to Chicago and back again. Rather than immigrating and assimilating, many people in the Latin/a Américas increasingly move back and forth between localities, between historically situated and culturally specific, though increasingly porous, places, across multiple borders, and not just between nations. The contributors deem these multidirectional crossings and movements, and the positionalities engendered, translocalities/translocalidades.

Contributors. Sonia E. Alvarez, Kiran Asher, Victoria (Vicky) M. Bañales, Marisa Belausteguigoitia Rius, Maylei Blackwell, Cruz C. Bueno, Pascha Bueno-Hansen, Mirangela Buggs, Teresa Carrillo, Claudia de Lima Costa, Isabel Espinal, Verónica Feliu, Macarena Gómez-Barris, Rebecca J. Hester, Norma Klahn, Agustín Lao-Montes, Suzana Maia, Márgara Millán, Adriana Piscitelli, Ana Rebeca Prada, Ester R. Shapiro, Simone Pereira Schmidt, Millie Thayer

Table of contents

• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction to the Project and the Volume - Enacting a Translocal Feminist Politics of Translation / Sonia E. Alvarez
• Introduction to Debates about Translation - Lost (and Found?) in Translation: Feminisms in Hemispheric Dialogue / Claudia De Lima Costa
• Part I: Mobilizations: Mobilizing Theories/Texts/Images
• Part 2: Meditations: National/Transnational Identities/Circuits
• Part III: Migrations: Disrupting (B)orders
• Part IV: Movements: Feminist/Social/Political/Postcolonial
• References
• Contributors
• Index