Untranslatability Goes Global

ISBN-13: 9780367365875 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 146 str.

Suzanne Jill Levine; Katie LaTeef-Jan

Opis

This book promotes interdisciplinary dialogue about untranslatability and its implications within the context of globalization.

O autorze

Suzanne Jill Levine is a leading translator and critic of Latin American literature, and distinguished professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she directs the Translation Studies doctoral program. Among her many honors she has received National Endowment for the Arts and for the Humanities grants, PEN awards, and a Guggenheim Fellowship for her literary biography of Manuel Puig (FSG, 2000). She is the author of　The Subversive Scribe: Translating Latin American Fiction　and editor of Penguin’s 5-volume paperback classics of Borges’ poetry and essays.

Katie Lateef-Jan is a PhD student in Comparative Literature and Translation Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her doctoral research focuses on twentieth-century Latin American literature, specifically Argentine fantastic fiction. Her translations from the Spanish have appeared in Review: Literature and Arts of the Americas and Granta.