Translation and the rise of inter-American literature /

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Author / Creator:	Lowe, Elizabeth, 1947-
Imprint:	Gainesville, FL : University Press of Florida, ©2007.
Description:	1 online resource (xix, 224 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	Latin American literature -- Translations into English -- History and criticism. Translating and interpreting. Latin American literature -- Translations into English. Translating and interpreting. Criticism, interpretation, etc. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11099103

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Other authors / contributors:	Fitz, Earl E.
ISBN:	9780813037806 0813037808 9780813031682 0813031680
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-211) and index. English. Print version record.
Summary:	Explains how stylistic and linguistic choices made by the translator can have a profound effect on how literary works are perceived by readers unfamiliar with a foreign language. They also point out ways in which the act of translation is critical to the discipline of comparative literature.
Other form:	Print version: Lowe, Elizabeth, 1947- Translation and the rise of inter-American literature. Gainesville, FL : University Press of Florida, ©2007 9780813031682

Table of Contents:

An Inter-American approach to translation and its implications for the study of Latin American literature, reception theory, and the development of comparative literature as a discipline
Translation and the liberation of Brazilian and Spanish American literature from the solitude of cultural ignorance and prejudice : the creation of a New World paradigm
Urbanization and the evolution of contemporary Latin American literature into a hemispheric context : changing patterns of influence and reception
Translation and the ontologies of cultural identity and aesthetic integrity in modern Brazilian and Spanish American narrative : some key texts
Translating the voices of a globalized Latin American literature : The McOndo Revolution and the Crack Generation
Gregory Rabassa : the translator's translator and the foundations of Inter-American literary study.

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