Translational Turn, A : Latinx Literature into the Mainstream Paperback / softback
by Marta E. Sanchez
Part of the Latinx and Latin American Profiles series
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No contemporary development underscores the transnational linkage between the United States and Spanish-language America today more than the wave of in-migration from Spanish-language countries during the 1980s and 1990s. This development, among others, has made clear what has always been true, that the United States is part of Spanish-language America. Translation and oral communication from Spanish to English have been constant phenomena since before the annexation of the Mexican Southwest in 1848.
The expanding number of counter-national translations from English to Spanish of Latinx fictional narratives by mainstream presses between the 1990s and 2010 is an indication of significant change in the relationship. A Translational Turn explores both the historical reality of Spanish to English translation and the "new" counter-national English to Spanish translation of Latinx narratives. More than theorizing about translation, this book underscores long-standing contact, such as code-mixing and bi-multilingualism, between the two languages in U.S. language and culture. Although some political groups in this country persist in seeing and representing this country as having a single national tongue and community, the linguistic ecology of both major cities and the suburban periphery, here and in the global world, is bilingualism and multilingualism.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:176 pages, 2 tables
- Publisher:University of Pittsburgh Press
- Publication Date:22/01/2019
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- ISBN:9780822965510
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:176 pages, 2 tables
- Publisher:University of Pittsburgh Press
- Publication Date:22/01/2019
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- ISBN:9780822965510