The Translator’s Visibility - Scenes from Contemporary Latin American Fiction (Hardcover)

At the intersection of translation studies and Latin American literary studies, The Translator’s Visibility examines contemporary novels by a cohort of writers – including prominent figures such as Cristina Rivera Garza, César Aira, Mario Bellatin, Valeria Luiselli, and Luis Fernando Verissimo – who foreground translation in their narratives. Drawing on Latin America’s long tradition of critical and creative engagement of translation, these novels explicitly, visibly, use major tropes of translation theory – such as gendered and spatialized metaphors for the practice, and the concept of untranslatability – to challenge the strictures of intellectual property and propriety while shifting asymmetries of discursive authority, above all between the original as a privileged repository of meaning and translation as its hollow emulation. In this way, The Translator’s Visibility show that translation not only serves to renew national literatures through an exchange of ideas and forms; when rendered visible, it can help us reimagine the terms according to which those exchanges take place. Ultimately, it is a book about language and power: not only the ways in which power wields language, but also the ways in which language can be used to unseat power.

General

Imprint:	Bloomsbury Academic USA
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Literatures, Cultures, Translation
Release date:	2021
Authors:	Heather Cleary
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	192
ISBN-13:	978-1-5013-5369-7
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Translation & interpretation > General
LSN:	1-5013-5369-1
Barcode:	9781501353697

Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate? Let us know about it.

Does this product have an incorrect or missing image? Send us a new image.

Is this product missing categories? Add more categories.

Review This Product

No reviews yet - be the first to create one!