Translating Home in the Global South

ISBN-13: 9781032449135 / Twarda / 2023 / 288 str.

Opis

This collection explores relationships between translation and movement of peoples across linguistic, cultural and physical borders of the Global South. This volume will be of interest to students and scholars in translation, postcolonial, migration and mobility studies and comparative literature.

Spis treści

Table of Contents, List of Contributors, Acknowledgments, Introduction. Home as a Translingual Practice (Isabel C. Gómez and Marlene Hansen Esplin, editors), Part I. Self-Translation, Collaboration, and Co-Creation in Migrant Writing, Chapter 1. A Pandemic View of Translation: Novels of Catastrophe and Our Hemispheric Home (Marlene Hansen Esplin), Chapter 2. Post-National Refugee Writing on Social Media: Translation as a Strategy of Survival (Tatjana Soldat-Jaffe), Chapter 3. An Almost Invisible Scene: Collaboration and Co-Creation in the Task of Translating Ricardo Piglia (Sergio Waisman), Part II: Detention, Denial of Home, and Border Policing, Chapter 4. Dwelling in Indeterminacy: Interpreting the Migrant Poet in Detention (Alexandra Maria Lossada), Chapter 5. Interpreting for Asylum-Seekers by a Former Refugee: Professionalism and Mental Health in Bekim Sejranović’s Transfiction (Višnja Krstić Jovanović and Filip Jovanović), Chapter 6. “A Big, Beautiful Wall”: Experimental Translation and Decolonial Practice in Mónica de la Torre’s Repetition Nineteen (Janet Hendrickson), Part III: Stateless Translation and Planetary Ecologies, Chapter 7. Fluid Voices: Translating Language and Place in Novels of Migration (Yan Wu), Chapter 8. Specters of Home in Agha Shahid Ali’s Translations of Faiz Ahmed Faiz and Mahmoud Darwish (Wafa Hamid), Chapter 9. A Puerto Rican Poetics of Disaster Relief and Cuir Eco-Translation (Isabel C. Gómez)

 

 

 

O autorze

Isabel C. Gómez is Associate Professor of Latin American and Iberian Studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston. Her book Cannibal Translation: Literary Reciprocity in Contemporary Latin America (Northwestern University Press, 2023) received a 2022 Helen Tarter First Book Subvention Prize from the ACLA. She served as President of the ICLA Committee on Translation Studies 2020-2023. Currently, her research focuses on the intersection of climate activism and translingual poetics; she was awarded a National Humanities Center Residential Fellowship for her next monograph Divest from English: Eco-Translation and Translingual Repair.

Marlene Hansen Esplin is Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Humanities in the Department of Comparative Arts and Letters at Brigham Young University. Her main research interests are translation studies and U.S. and Latin American literatures. Recent projects include “Approaching Literary Self-Translation in the United States and Latin America” for The Routledge Handbook of Latin American Literary Translation, a review essay on “The ‘Outward Turn’ in Translation Studies” for Recherche littéraire / Literary Research, and an article examining intersections between translation and ethnography in English translations of Cabeza de Vaca’s Relación for Translation Review. She is the Vice President of the ICLA Committee on Translation Studies.