Voice-Overs

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.

"…the editors describe this book as 'an invitation to reflect on multiple and intersecting circuits of cultural production.' Taken as a whole, the essays in this work provide an excellent grounding for such reflection, and will attract a wide readership among specialists and non-specialists alike." — Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies"This book is superbly conceived: by combining statements on translation by writers and translators with research articles and classic essays, it makes available a range of resources that are both valuable in themselves and mutually illuminating. It lays the groundwork for further investigation into the question of literary translation, not only as it relates to Latin American literature, but also generally, as it relates to twentieth-century literatures, especially in postcolonial situations." — Lawrence Venuti, author of The Scandals of Translation: Towards an Ethics of Difference"This book is especially attractive because of its scope—translation as cultural exchange as well as linguistic transposition—and the range of its authors. It includes essays by some of Latin America's major writers and their translators, as well as thoughtful reflections on the issues of translation specific to the heterogeneity of Latin American culture and literature." — Gwen Kirkpatrick, author of The Dissonant Legacy of Modernismo: Lugones, Herrera y Reissig, and the Voices of Modern Spanish American Poetry

• Acknowledgments Introduction Daniel Balderston and Marcy Schwartz PART I. WRITERS ON TRANSLATION The Homeric VersionsJorge Luis Borges Translate, Traduire, Tradurre: TraducirJulio Cortázar The Desire to TranslateGabriel García Márquez Gender and TranslationDiana Bellessi Where Do Words Come From?Luisa Futoransky On Destiny, Language, and Translation, or, Ophelia Adrift in the C. & O. Canal Rosario Ferré Language, Violence, and ResistanceJunot Díaz Translation as RestorationCristina García Language and ChangeRolando Hinojosa-Smith MetamorphosisNélida Piñon Resisting HybridityAriel Dorfman A Translator in Search of an AuthorCristina Peri Rossi Trauma and Precision in TranslationTomás Eloy Martínez Writing and TranslationRicardo Piglia PART II. TRANSLATING LATIN AMERICA A Conversation on Translation with Margaret Sayers PedenMargaret Sayers Peden Words Cannot Express...The Translation of CulturesGregory Rabassa Infante's InfernoSuzanne Jill Levine The Draw of the OtherJames Hoggard Anonymous Sources: A Talk on Translators and TranslationEliot Weinberger Can Verse Come Across into Verse?John Felstiner PART III. CRITICAL APPROACHES Reading Latin American Literature Abroad: Agency and Canon Formation in the Sixties and SeventiesMaría Eugenia Mudrovcic How the West Was Won: Translations of Spanish American Fiction in Europe and the United StatesMaarten Steenmeijer Translating García Márquez, or, The Impossible DreamGerald Martin Translating Vowels, or, The Defeat of Sounds: The Case of HuidobroJosé Quiroga The Indigenist Writer as a (Mis)Translator of Cultures: The Case of Alcides ArguedasEdmundo Paz-Soldán Borges, the Original of the TranslationWalter Carlos Costa Puga's Fictions of Equivalence: The Tasks of the Novelist as TranslatorVicky Unruh Translation in Post-Dictatorship Brazil: A Weave of Metaphysical Voices in the TropicsElse Ribeiro Pires Vieira Bodies in Transit: Travel, Translation, and GenderFrancine Masiello De-facing Cuba: Translating and Transfiguring Cristina García's The Agüero SistersIsrael Reyes Translation and Teaching: The Dangers of Representing Latin America for Students in the United StatesSteven F. White Bibliography List of Contributors Index