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Cannibal Translation
Isabel C. Gómez
其他書名
Literary Reciprocity in Contemporary Latin America
出版
Northwestern University Press
, 2023-05-15
主題
Literary Criticism / General
Literary Criticism / Caribbean & Latin American
Literary Criticism / Comparative Literature
ISBN
0810145979
9780810145979
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=SYTOEAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
Winner of the 2024 ACLA Harry Levin Prize
A bold comparative study illustrating the creative potential of translations that embrace mutuality and resist assimilation
Cannibal translators digest, recombine, transform, and trouble their source materials. Isabel C. Gómez makes the case for this model of literary production by excavating a network of translation projects in Latin America that includes canonical writers of the twentieth century, such as Haroldo and Augusto de Campos, Rosario Castellanos, Clarice Lispector, José Emilio Pacheco, Octavio Paz, and Ángel Rama. Building on the avant-garde reclaiming of cannibalism as an Indigenous practice meant to honorably incorporate the other into the self, these authors took up Brazilian theories of translation in Spanish to fashion a distinctly Latin American literary exchange, one that rejected normative and Anglocentric approaches to translation and developed collaborative techniques to bring about a new understanding of world literature.
By shedding new light on the political and aesthetic pathways of translation movements beyond the Global North, Gómez offers an alternative conception of the theoretical and ethical challenges posed by this artistic practice.
Cannibal Translation: Literary Reciprocity in Contemporary Latin America
mobilizes a capacious archive of personal letters, publishers’ records, newspapers, and new media to illuminate inventive strategies of collectivity and process, such as untranslation, transcreation, intersectional autobiographical translation, and transpeaking. The book invites readers to find fresh meaning in other translational histories and question the practices that mediate literary circulation.