Latin American Literature and Culture in Translation

Martín Gaspar is Associate Professor of Spanish and Co-Director of Comparative Literature at Bryn Mawr College, USA.

• IntroductionMartín Gaspar (Bryn Mawr College, USA)Part One: Indigenous Languages and Coloniality1. Scenes of Translation and Interpretation in the Administration of Justice in Spanish America (Sixteenth to Nineteenth Century) Gertrudis Payàs (Universidad Católica de Temuco, Chile)Caroline Cunill (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, EHESS, France)2. Between Orality and Writing, Roberto Viereck Salinas (Concordia University, Canada)3. Decentering Self-Translation in Indigenous Latin American Literature, Paola Mancosu (University of Milan, Italy)Part Two: Gender and Sexuality4. A Battle of Expectations, Leah Leone Anderson (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA)5. Homoerotic Desire from French to Spanish, Andrea Pagni (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany)6. Translating Gayness, María Julia Rossi (CUNY, John Jay College, USA)7. Translating Contemporary Latin American Women Dramatists, Sophie Stevens (University of London, UK)Part Three: Race8. “Os Beiços da Tia Nastácia”, John Milton (São Paulo University, Brazil) and Vanete Santana-Dezmann (São Paulo University, Brazil)9. Translation, Race and Gender, Luciana de Mesquita Silva (Cefet/Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)Part Four: Archive and Activism10. Un raté? Álvaro Armando Vasseur, Lucía Campanella, (Marie Sklodowska Curie Postdoctoral Fellow, Spain)11. Tracing a Translator’s Life, María Constanza Guzmán (York University, Canada)12. Translating as Ecosystem, Robin Myers (Literary Translator)13. The Tasks of the Translator, Jeffrey Lawrence (Rutgers University, USA)Part Five: Creation and Authenticity14. Junot Díaz Translated into Spanish, Mattea Cussel (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain)15. Julio Cortázar Takes to the Streets, Marcy Schwartz (Rutgers University, USA)16. Translation and the Notion of Cult Writer, Ingrid Robyn (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA)17. A Language with No Model, Delfina Cabrera (Universität zu Köln, Germany)Part Six: Politics18. From A ilusão americana to La ilusión yanqui, Ori Preuss (Tel Aviv University, Israel)19. Tobacco, Sugar, and Translation, Victoria Livingstone (Johns Hopkins University, USA)Part Seven: Classics and World Literature20. Translation Scenes of a Classic, Sara J. Iriarte (Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazi)21. Can Xue, Author of Jorge Luis Borges, César Domínguez (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Spain) and Wang Chenchen (Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Spain)Pan Chao (Shanghai Sanda University, China)22. A Gender Mask, Martín Gaspar (Bryn Mawr College, USA) and Gonzalo Aguilar (Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina)

I welcome this book whole-heartedly. There has long been the need for a work that deals with the complexity and variety of translation theory and practice in Latin America. This wide-ranging collection of essays is an important and timely contribution to contemporary thinking about translation in the Latin American context.