Jones Literature in Motion

Translating Multilingualism Across the Americas
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-0-231-55483-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 272 Seiten

Reihe: Literature Now

Ellen Jones offers a new framework for understanding literary multilingualism, emphasizing how authors and translators can use its defamiliarizing and disruptive potential. She examines the connection between translation and multilingualism and considers its significance for the theory, practice, and publishing of literature in translation.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jones, Ellen

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Romanische Literaturen Lateinamerikanische Literaturen, Spanische Literatur außerhalb Europas
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
A Note on Translations
Introduction: Translation and Multilingualism in Contemporary American Literature
1. “Mi lengua es un palimpsesto”: Susana Chávez-Silverman’s Palimpsestuous Writing
2. Censorship and (Pseudo-)Translation in Junot Díaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
3. “I Want My Closet Back”: Queering and Unqueering Language in Giannina Braschi’s Yo-Yo Boing!
4. Fluid Trajectories in Two Versions of Wilson Bueno’s Mar Paraguayo
Coda: Beyond America: Multilingualism, Translation, and Asymptote
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Ellen Jones holds a doctorate from Queen Mary University of London. Her recent literary translations from Spanish include Ave Barrera’s The Forgery (2022, co-translated with Robin Myers), Bruno Lloret’s Nancy (2020) and Rodrigo Fuentes’s Trout, Belly Up (2019). Her critical writing has appeared in the Times Literary Supplement, the Los Angeles Review of Books, the Guardian, and elsewhere.