Untranslatability Goes Global

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.

• 1. Preface: The Untranslatable and World Literature Suzanne Jill Levine2. Pragmatic Translation Alfred Mac Adam3. Co-translating Untranslatability: Literary Acts of Wild Solidarity Val Vinokur and Rose Réjouis4. The Self-translator’s Preface as a Site of Renaissance Self-fashioning: Bernardo Gómez Miedes’ Spanish Reframing of His Latin "mirror for princes" Rainier Grutman5. From the Rockies to the Amazon: Translating Experimental Canadian Poetry for a Brazilian Audience Odile Cisneros6. The Way by Lydia’s: A New Translation of Proust Dominique Jullien7. "what happens letting words dance from one language to another": Translating Giovanna Sandri’s clessidra: il ritmo delle trace Guy Bennett8. Through the Mirror: Translating Autofiction Béatrice Mousli9. Translating Jón lærði: Between Proto-Journalism and Baroque Aesthetics Viola Miglio10. Leila Aboulela’s The Translator, a translational text? Nicole Côté11. Theory, World Literature, and the Problem of Untranslatability Gauti Kristmannsson