Translocalities/translocalidades : feminist politics of translation in the Latin/a Américas /

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Imprint:Durham [North Carolina] : Duke University Press, 2014.
Description:xi, 483 pages ; 24 cm
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9978409
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Other authors / contributors:Alvarez, Sonia E., 1956- editor.
Costa, Claudia de Lima, editor.
Feliu, Verónica, editor.
Hester, Rebecca J., editor.
Klahn, Norma, editor.
Thayer, Millie, editor.
Caridad Bueno, Cruz, editor.
ISBN:9780822356158 (cloth : alk. paper)
0822356155 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780822356325 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0822356325 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction to the Project and the Volume: Enacting a Translocal Feminist Politics of Translation
  • Introduction to Debates about Translation: Lost (and Found?) in Translation: Feminisms in Hemispheric Dialogue
  • Part I. Moblizations/Mobilizing the Drives/Texts/Images
  • 1. Locating Women's Writing and Translation in the Americas in the Age of Latinamericanismo and Globalization
  • 2. Is Anzaldúa Translatable in Bolivia?
  • 3. Crow Canela Bala e Favela: Luso-Afro-Brazilian Feminist Postcolonialitics
  • 4. El Incansable Juego/The Untiring Game: Dominican Women Writing and Translating Ourselves
  • 5. Pedagogical Strategies for a Transnational Reading of Border Writers; Pairing a Triangle
  • Part II. Mediations/National/Transnational Identities/Circuits
  • 6. Feminist Theories, Transnational Translations, and Cultural Mediations
  • 7. Politics of Translation in Contemporary Mexican Feminism
  • 8. Bodies in Translation: Health Promotion in Indigenous Mexican Migrant Communities in California
  • 9. Texts in Contexts: Reading Afro-Colombian Women's Activism
  • 10. EI Fruto it Id Voz: The "Difference" of Moyeneí Valdés's Sound Break Politics
  • Part III. Migrations/Disrupting (B) Orders
  • 11. Translation and Transnationalization of Domestic Service
  • 12. Chilean Domestic Labor: A Feminist Silence Verónica Feliu
  • 13. Performing Seduction and National Identity: Brazilian Erotic Dancers in New York
  • 14. Transnational Sex Travels: Negotiating Identities in a Brazilian "Tropical Paradise"
  • Part IV. Movements/Feminists/Social/Political/Postcolonial
  • 15. Translenguas: Mapping the Possibilities and Challenges of Transnational Women's Organizing across Geographies of Difference
  • 16. Queer/Lesbiana Dialogues among Feminist Movements in the Américas
  • 17. Learning from Latinas: Translating Our Bodies. Ourselves as Transnational Feminist Text
  • 18. Women with Guns: Translating Gender in I, Rigoberta Menthú
  • 19. Translocal Space of Afro-Latinidad: Critical Feminist Visions for Diasporic Bridge-Building
  • 20. Translations and Refusals: Resignifying Meanings as Feminist Political Practice
  • References
  • Contributors
  • Index