Travelling voices, narratives in flux: translators as agents of circulation of latin american literature
Abstract
Translation has been one of the realms of practice through which Latin American literature has been (re)configured transnationally and come to occupy a place in the international literary space. In the second half of the twentieth century, US translators played a key role in the circulation of Latin American narratives. This article focuses on these agents of cultural mediation, taking as a conceptual axis the notion of the “translator’s archive”. It offers and overview of the dynamics of cultural circulation as they can be traced in the materiality of translation and the documents that surround its practice. It aims to sketch an image of Latin American literature that incorporates translation and translators as key agents of print culture. It also seeks to illustrate ways to approach translation as an epistemological problem and translators as agents in the complex collective landscape of the production of culture.Keywords:
cultural circulation, literary translation, translators, archive, Latin American literature, translation into EnglishReferences
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