Translation As Home

Ilan Stavans is the Lewis-Sebring Professor of Humanities, Latin American, and Latino Culture at Amherst College. Regina Galasso is an associate professor in the Spanish and Portuguese Studies Program and the director of the Translation Center at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

• IntroductionRoom for Language: Moving into TranslationRegina GalassoPart One: Language on FireWe Are the Clarion: A Manifesto on ImmigrationOn Packing Up My LibraryRetelling Popol Vuh – in Chinese"English as She Spoke It": The Fallacy of American Studies (with Steven G. Kellman)Olga Takarczuk’s Messianic CritiqueDoes Literature Teach Us How to Die? (with Priyanka Champaneri)  The People’s Tongue: Language as CharacterClaudio Lomnitz’s VertigoRethinking the Classics (with Jenna Tang)Pierre Menard: Retranslation and Approximation (with Youssef Boucetta)Fernando Pessoa’s SelvesOn Borges’s Blindness (with Max Ubelaker Andrade)How Yiddish Changed America and How America Changed Yiddish (with Josh Lambert)The Anxiety of Translation (with Robert Croll)We Are All Drafts: The Erotics of Translation (with Peter Cole)Part Two: Dictionaries as ConfidantsNotes on Latino PhilologyThe Miasma of Order; or, Why Dictionaries Ought to Be Seen as LiteratureIs American Spanish Healthy?On Decidophobia (with Haoran Tong)"Clean, Fix, and Grant Splendor": The Making of Diccionario de autoridadesPablo Neruda’s "Ode to the Dictionary"Letter to a Young TranslatorHow Dictionaries Define Us (with Margaret Boyle)Part Three: Translation as Home Sor Juana in NahuatlOn Memes as Semiotic Hand-Grenades (with Mª Carmen África Vidal Claramonte)Peter Brook’s SpaceOn Translating the Disappearance into Yiddish (with Beruriah Wiegand)Is I Me, or Who Is I? Conversation with JimPetrarch’s Sonnet #132A Lover Alone in Prison (with Sara Khalili)Roberto Bolaño’s TantrumsJevel Katz in YingleñolMatching Socks in the Dark; or, How to Translate from Languages You Don’t Know Self-Translation como survival mecanismoSimply GimplHomestead: "La casa pairal" from the Manuscript of Reus (with Regina Galasso)Translation as Home (with Regina Galasso)Immigrants in Quarantine (with Jhumpa Lahiri and Eduardo Halfon)Coda: The Hermeneutics of TranslationReading the Talmud in Mexico: A ConfessionContributorsIndex