Voice-Overs

Translation and Latin American Literature

Daniel Balderston, Marcy E. Schwartz, Daniel Balderston, Marcy E. Schwartz

• Publisher: SUNY Press
• Year: 2012
• Print ISBN:
  9780791455302
  9780791455296
• eBook ISBN:
  9780791487877
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Spanish Language
• Index: Literature

Writers, translators, and critics explore the cultural politics and transnational impact of Latin American literature.

In Voice-Overs, an impressive collection of writers, translators, and critics of Latin American literature address the challenges and triumphs of translation in the publishing industry, in teaching, and in the writing culture of the Americas. Through personal anecdotes as well as critical analyses, they engage important, ongoing debates over issues of language, exile, cultural identity, and literary markets. Institutions and personalities in Latin American literary translation are highlighted to examine the genre's cultural politics and transnational impact.

Table of contents

• Voice-Overs
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Part I. Writers on Translation
• The Homeric Versions
• Translate, Traduire, Tradurre: Traducir
• The Desire to Translate
• Gender and Translation
• Where Do Words Come From?
• On Destiny, Language, and Translation, or, Ophelia Adrift in the C. & O. Canal
• Language, Violence, and Resistance
• Translation as Restoration
• Language and Change
• Metamorphosis
• Resisting Hybridity
• A Translator in Search of an Author
• Trauma and Precision in Translation
• Writing and Translation
• Part II. Translating Latin America
• A Conversation on Translation with Margaret Sayers Peden
• Words Cannot Express... The Translation of Cultures
• Infante's Inferno
• The Draw of the Other
• Anonymous Sources: A Talk on Translators and Translation
• Can Verse Come Across into Verse?
• Part III. Critical Approaches
• Reading Latin American Literature Abroad: Agency and Canon Formation in the Sixties and Seventies
• How the West Was Won: Translations of Spanish American Fiction in Europe and the United States
• Translating Garcia Marquez, or, The Impossible Dream
• Gerald Martin
• Translating Vowels, or, The Defeat of Sounds: The Case of Huidobro
• The Indigenist Writer as a (Mis)Translator of Cultures: The Case of Alcides Arguedas
• Borges, the Original of the Translation
• Puga's Fictions of Equivalence: The Tasks of the Novelist As Translator
• Translation in Post-Dictatorship Brazil: A Weave of Metaphysical Voices in the Tropics
• Bodies in Transit: Travel, Translation, and Gender
• De-Facing Cuba: Translating and Transfiguring Cristina Garcia's The Aguero Sisters
• Translation and Teaching: The Dangers of Representing Latin America for Students in the United States
• Bibliography
• Contributors
• Index