Translocalities/Translocalidades

Sonia E. Alvarez is Leonard J. Horowitz Professor of Latin American Politics and Studies and Director of the Center for Latin American, Caribbean, and Latino Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.Claudia de Lima Costa teaches literary theory, feminist theories, and cultural studies at the Federal University of Santa Catarina, in FlorianÓpolis, Brazil. VerÓnica Feliu is a Spanish instructor at City College of San Francisco.VerÓnica Feliu is a Spanish instructor at City College of San Francisco.Rebecca J. Hester, a political scientist, is Assistant Professor of Social Medicine in the Institute for the Medical Humanities at the University of Texas Medical Branch.Norma Klahn is Professor of Literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz.Millie Thayer is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where she is affiliated with the Center for Latin American, Caribbean, and Latino Studies.

"One of the triumphs of this collection of essays is its breadth and depth regarding the notions of translation, translocation and the intersections of feminism, activism and language in and across many of the cultures within Latin America, and U.S. Latina/o diasporic communities." - Ilana Dann Luna (Ameriquests) "[T]his collection is a brilliant contribution to feminist teaching and research on the constantly changing and fluid crossings of people, capital, cultures, and technologies. It is a beautifully presented set of narratives, theories, and visions that translate the differently lived and contested meanings of 'Latin/a' feminisms. It is grounded in the Americas but will resonate profoundly with all people engaged in feminist transnational communities and networks for social and political transformation."  - Wendy Harcourt (Hispanic American Historical Review)

• Acknowledgments ixIntroduction to the Project and the Volume: Enacting a Translocal Feminist Politics of Translation / Sonia E. Alvarez 1Introduction to the Debates about Translation: Lost (and Found?) in Translation: Feminisms in Hemispheric Dialogue / Claudia de Lima Costa 19Part I. Mobilizations/Mobilizing Theories/Texts/Images 1. Locating Women's Writing and Translation in the Americas in the Age of Latinamericanismo and Globalization / Norma Klahn 392. Is AnzaldÚa Translatable in Bolivia? / Ana Rebeca Prada 573. Cravo Canela Bala e Favela: Luso-Afro-Brazilian Feminist Postcolonialities / Simone Pereira Schmidt 784. El Incansable Juego / The Untiring Game: Dominican Women Writing and Translating Ourselves / Isabel Espinal 955. Pedagogical Strategies for a Transnational Reading of Border Writers: Pairing a Triangle / Marisa Belaustaguigoita Rius 107Part II. Mediations/National/Transnational Identities/Circuits 6. Feminist Theories, Transnational Translations, and Cultural Mediations / Claudia de Lima Costa 1337. Politics of Translation in Contemporary Mexican Feminism / MÁrgara MillÁn 1498. Bodies in Translation: Health Promotion in Indigenous Mexican Migrant Communities in California / Rebecca J. Hester 1689. Texts in Contexts: Reading Afro-Colombian Women's Activism / Kiran Asher 18910. El Fruto de la Voz: The "Difference" of MoyeneÍ ValdÉs's Sound Break Politics / Macarena GÓmez-Barris 209Part III. Migrations/Disrupting (B)orders 11. Translation and Transnationalization of Domestic Service / Teresa Carrillo 22512. Chilean Domestic Labor: A Feminist Silence / VerÓnica Feliu 24013. Performing Seduction and National Identity: Brazilian Erotic Dancers in New York / Suzana Maia 25814. Transnational Sex Travels: Negotiating Identities in a Brazilian "Tropical Paradise" / Adriana Piscitelli 277Part IV. Movement/Feminist/Social/Political/Postcolonial 15. Translenguas: Mapping the Possibilities and Challenges of Transnational Women's Organizing across Geographies of Difference / Maylei Blackwell 29916. Queer/Lesbiana Dialogues among Feminist Movements in the AmÉricas / Pascha Bueno-Hansen 32117. Learning from Latinas: Translating Our Bodies, Ourselves as Transnational Feminist Text / Ester R. Shapiro 34018. Women with Guns: Translating Gender in I, Rigoberta MenchÚ / Victoria M. BaÑales 36319. Translocal Space of Afro-Latinidad: Critical Feminist Visions for Diasporic Bridge-Building / AgustÍn Lao-Montes and Mirangela Buggs 38120. Translations and Refusals: Resignifying Meanings as Feminist Political Practice / Millie Thayer 401References 423Contributors 463Index 469