A Translational Turn

Latinx Literature into the Mainstream

Marta E. Sanchez, Marta E. Sánchez

• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Year: 2019
• Topic: Literature
• eBook ISBN:
  9780822986409
• Subtopic: Translating & Interpreting
• Index: Literature

No contemporary development underscores the transnational linkage between the United States and Spanish-language América today more than the wave of in-migration from Spanish-language countries during the 1980s and 1990s. This development, among others, has made clear what has always been true, that the United States is part of Spanish-language América. Translation and oral communication from Spanish to English have been constant phenomena since before the annexation of the Mexican Southwest in 1848. The expanding number of counter-national translations from English to Spanish of Latinx fictional narratives by mainstream presses between the 1990s and 2010 is an indication of significant change in the relationship. A Translational Turn explores both the historical reality of Spanish to English translation and the "new" counter-national English to Spanish translation of Latinx narratives. More than theorizing about translation, this book underscores long-standing contact, such as code-mixing and bi-multilingualism, between the two languages in U.S. language and culture. Although some political groups in this country persist in seeing and representing this country as having a single national tongue and community, the linguistic ecology of both major cities and the suburban periphery, here and in the global world, is bilingualism and multilingualism.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Half Title Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: Setting the Stage
• Chapter 1: Reverse Crossover Latinx Narratives: English to Spanish Translations in a U.S. Market
• Chapter 2: The “New” Status of Spanish in the United States
• Chapter 3: Pocho en Español: The Anti-Pocho Pocho
• Chapter 4: Unforgetting the Forgetting: The Sonics of Jíbara Dialect in Esmeralda Santiago’s Cuando era puertorriqueña
• Chapter 5: I May Say “Wetback” but I Really Mean Mojado: Ramón “Tianguis” Pérez’s Diary of an Undocumented Immigrant
• Afterword
• Appendix 1: English-to-Spanish Translations
• Appendix 2: Spanish-to-English Translations
• Notes
• Works Cited
• Index