Transatlantic Translations

by Ortega, Julio; Derbyshire, Philip

• ISBN13: 9781861892874
• ISBN10: 186189287X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-10-30
• Publisher: Reaktion Books

Summary

"Transatlantic Translations refigures Latin American narratives outside of the current paradigm of 'victimization' and 'resistance'. Julio Ortega is more concerned to examine how what was different is constructed in terms of what was already known, and to explore what he terms 'the radical principle of the new intermixing. Tracing Latin American representations from the early modern era to our own in the work of Shakespeare, Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, Guaman Poma de Ayala, Juan Rulfo and Gabriel Garcia Marquez, among others, Ortega reveals that language was not solely a way for colonizers to indoctrinate and 'civilize, but also a means that enabled Latin Americans to argue and negotiate their versions and appropriations, and eventually to tell their own history. The coordinated essays in Transatlantic Translations enable the Old World and the New to meet and debate together in a new language."--BOOK JACKET.

Author Biography

Julio Ortega is professor of Latin American literature at Brown University and is the author of numerous books, including Poetics of Change: The New Spanish-American Narrative and Gabriel García Márquez and the Powers of Fiction.
 

Table of Contents

Introduction: The Subject of Abundance	7	(24)
one Speaking: Caliban	31	(18)
two Reading: The Children of the Letter	49	(17)
three Writing: The Alphabet of Abundance	66	(16)
four Translating: The Transatlantic Subject	82	(20)
five Drawing: The Wonders of the Caribbean	102	(19)
six Representing: The Language of National Formation	121	(38)
seven Judging: The Paternal Desert	159	(11)
eight Interpreting: The Authority of Reading	170	(15)
Conclusion	185	(12)
References	197	(20)
Acknowledgements	217	(2)
Index	219