Iberian and Translation Studies: Literary Contact Zones

Esther Gimeno Ugalde (Curatore)

Marta Pacheco Pinto (Curatore)

Liverpool University Press, 2021

Iberian and Translation Studies: Literary Contact Zones offers fertile reflection on the dynamics of linguistic diversity and multifaceted literary translation flows taking place across the Iberian Peninsula. Drawing on cutting-edge theoretical perspectives and on a historically diverse body of case studies, the volume's sixteen chapters explore the key role of translation in shaping interliterary relations and cultural identities within Iberia. Mary Louise Pratt's contact zone metaphor is used as an overarching concept to approach Iberia as a translation(al) space where languages and cultural systems (Basque, Catalan, Galician, Portuguese, and Spanish) set up relationships either of conflict, coercion, and resistance or of collaboration, hospitality, and solidarity. In bringing together a variety of essays by multilingual scholars whose conceptual and empirical research places itself at the intersection of translation and literary Iberian studies, the book opens up a new interdisciplinary field of enquiry: Iberian translation studies. This allows for a renewed study of canonical authors such as Joan Maragall, Fernando Pessoa, Camilo Jose Cela, and Bernardo Atxaga, and calls attention to emerging bilingual contemporary voices. In addition to addressing understudied genres (the entremez and the picaresque novel) and the phenomena of self-translation, indirect translation, and collaborative translation, the book provides fresh insights into Iberian cultural agents, mediators, and institutions.

• Curatore: Esther Gimeno Ugalde, Marta Pacheco Pinto
• Editore: Liverpool University Press
• Collana: Contemporary Hispanic and Lusophone Cultures
• Anno: 2021
• Rilegatura: Hardback
• Pagine: 384 p.
• Dimensioni: 239 x 163 mm
• EAN: 9781800856905

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