Translator’s Visibility

Heather Cleary is an Assistant Professor of Spanish at Sarah Lawrence College, USA. Her research on contemporary Latin American culture and the theory and practice of translation has appeared in journals including Hispanic Review and Mutatis Mutandis. She has also published ten books in translation, including Betina González’s American Delirium, Roque Larraquy’s Comemadre (Nominee, National Book Award 2019), as well as Sergio Chejfec’s The Dark (Nominee, National Translation Award 2013) and The Planets (Finalist, Best Translated Book Award 2012).

• Introduction: Against Propriety I. A Tradition of Translation II. The Translator’s Visibility 1. Monsters and ParricidesI. Tea for OneII. In the Name of the Father III. Of Bastards and Clones 2. Foreign CorrespondenceI. A Few Notes on (Un)Translation II. Fragments of a Vessel III. The Problem with False Friends IV. The Problem with True Friends V. Best Enemies 3. Writing in the Margins I. On the (Foot-)Printed Page II. The Hermeneutic (Com-)Motion III. A Re-writer on the Edge IV. Playing Along 4. Writing off the Map I. Carpet and FringeII. Quite a View You’ve Got Here III. Into the Woods Coda: Reading for Distance AcknowledgmentsBibliographyIndex

[I]nsightful and deeply researched ... In addition to her thoughtful readings and radical reconsideration of the relationship between text and author, the value of Cleary’s project is that it opens a doorway for further dialogue about the implications of translation and its fictional representation.