Untranslatability Goes Global, co-edited by Suzanne Jill Levine and Katie Lateef-Jan (Routledge, 2017)

This collection brings together contributions from translation theorists, linguists, and literary scholars to promote interdisciplinary dialogue about untranslatability and its implications within the context of globalization. The chapters depart from the pragmatics of translation practice and move on to consider the role of the translator’s voice and the translator as author in specific literary works. The volume as a whole seeks to study and at times dramatize the interplay between translation as a creative practice and its place within the dynamic between local and global, examining case studies across a wide variety of literary genres and traditions across regions. By highlighting the complex interface between translation practice and theory, translator and author, and local and global, this book will be of particular interest to graduate students and scholars in translation studies and literary studies.

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.

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.

Table of Contents

1. Preface: The Untranslatable and World Literature. SUZANNE JILL LEVINE
2. Pragmatic Translation. ALFRED MAC ADAM
3. Co-Translating Untranslatability: Literary Acts of Wild Solidarity. VAL VINOKUR AND ROSE RÉJOUIS
4. The Self-Translator’s Preface as a Site of Renaissance Self-Fashioning: Bernardino Gómez Miedes? Spanish Reframing of His Latin Mirror for Princes? RAINIER GRUTMAN
5. From the Rockies to the Amazon: Translating Experimental Canadian Poetry for a Brazilian Audience. ODILE CISNEROS
6. The Way by Lydia’s: A New Translation of Proust. DOMINIQUE JULLIEN
7. “What Happens Letting Words Dance from One Language to Another”: Translating Giovanna Sandri’s Clessidra: Il Ritmo Delle Trace. GUY BENNETT
8. Through the Mirror: Translating Autofiction. BÉATRICE MOUSLI
9. Translating Jón lærði: Between Proto-Journalism and Baroque Aesthetics. VIOLA MIGLIO
10. Leila Aboulela’s The Translator, a Translational Text?. NICOLE CÔTÉ
11. Theory, World Literature, and the Problem of Untranslatability. GAUTI KRISTMANNSSON

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