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Literature in Motion: Translating Multilingualism Across the Americas

Literature in Motion: Translating Multilingualism Across the Americas

Jones, Ellen

Paperback

Series: Literature Now

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 0231203039
ISBN13: 9780231203036
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: Dec 28 2021
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

Literature is often assumed to be monolingual: publishing rights are sold on the basis of linguistic territories and translated books are assumed to move from one original language to another. Yet a wide range of contemporary literary works mix and meld two or more languages, incorporating translation into their composition. How are these multilingual works translated, and what are the cultural and political implications of doing so?

In Literature in Motion, Ellen Jones offers a new framework for understanding literary multilingualism, emphasizing how authors and translators can use its defamiliarizing and disruptive potential to resist conventions of form and dominant narratives about language and gender. Examining the connection between translation and multilingualism in contemporary literature, she considers its significance for the theory, practice, and publishing of literature in translation. Jones argues that translation does not conflict with multilingual writing's subversive potential. Instead, we can understand multilingualism and translation as closely intertwined creative strategies through which other forms of textual and conceptual hybridity, fluidity, and disruption are explored.

Jones addresses both well-known and understudied writers from across the American hemisphere who explore the spaces between languages as well as genders, genres, and textual versions, reading their work alongside their translations. She focuses on U.S. Latinx authors Susana Chávez-Silverman, Junot Díaz, and Giannina Braschi, who write in different forms of Spanglish, as well as the Brazilian writer Wilson Bueno, who combines Portuguese and Spanish, or Portunhol, with the indigenous language Guarani, and whose writing is rendered into Frenglish by Canadian translator Erín Moure.

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