Voice-Overs: Translation and Latin American Literature

Herausgeber: Balderston, Daniel; Schwartz, Marcy E.

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In Voice-Ouers, an impressive collection of writers, translators, and critics of Latin American literature address the challenges and triumphs of translation in the publishing industry, in teaching, and in the writing culture of the Americas. Through personal anecdotes as well as critical analyses, they engage important, ongoing debates over issues of language, exile, cultural identity, and literary markets. Institutions and personalities in Latin American literary translation are highlighted to examine the genre's cultural politics and transnational impact.

Produktdetails

• Suny Latin American and Iberia
• Verlag: State University of New York Press
• Seitenzahl: 276
• Erscheinungstermin: Oktober 2002
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780791455296
• ISBN-10: 0791455297
• Artikelnr.: 21864921

Autorenporträt

Daniel Balderston is Professor and Chair of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Iowa. He is the author and editor of several titles, including (with Mike Gonzalez and Ana M. López) The Encyclopedia of Contemporary Latin American and Caribbean Cultures. Marcy E. Schwartz is Associate Professor and Academic Director of Latin American Studies at Rutgers University. She is the author of Writing Paris: Urban Topographies of Desire in Contemporary Latin American Fiction, also published by SUNY Press.