Avenues of Translation

Regina Galasso is an assistant professor and director of the Translation Center at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She is the author of Translating New York: The City’s Languages in Iberian Literatures (2018), recipient of the 2017 NeMLA Book Award, and translator of Alicia Borinsky’s Lost Cities Go to Paradise (2015).Evelyn Scaramella is an assistant professor of Spanish at Manhattan College. She is working on a book manuscript about translation and literary collaborations between Hispanophone and Anglophone avant-garde writers during the Spanish Civil War. Her scholarly writing has appeared in Translation Review, The Massachusetts Review, and Revista Canadiense de Estudios HispÁnicos, among other journals.

"Avenues of Translation offers an innovative focus on the literary, theoretical, creative, and metaphorical representations of the city in the Spanish and Latin American contexts. The essays in this volume address a wide variety of geographies, cultures, and literary genres in the Hispanic world, and present a welcome addition to the growing number of studies dedicated to representations of the city." - David Richter (Utah State University) "This collection sheds new light on translations that are only possible in cities while also uncovering how Latin American and Iberian influencers have transformed urban spaces by leaving their own cultural and historical marks. Scholars of Iberian, Latin American, and translation studies will gladly add this outstanding collection of essays to their list of must-read books." (Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature) "Recommended." (Choice) "Avenues of Translation offers an innovative focus on the literary, theoretical, creative, and metaphorical representations of the city in the Spanish and Latin American contexts. The essays in this volume address a wide variety of geographies, cultures, and literary genres in the Hispanic world, and present a welcome addition to the growing number of studies dedicated to representations of the city." - David Richter (Utah State University) "This collection sheds new light on translations that are only possible in cities while also uncovering how Latin American and Iberian influencers have transformed urban spaces by leaving their own cultural and historical marks. Scholars of Iberian, Latin American, and translation studies will gladly add this outstanding collection of essays to their list of must-read books." (Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature) "Recommended." (Choice)

• Prologue: The City and the Translator by Suzanne Jill LevineIntroduction: Translation and the City by Regina Galasso and Evelyn Scaramella1          Un Walker en Nuyol: Coming to Terms with a Babel of Words by Ilan Stavans2          Translation as a Native Language: The Layered Languages of Tango by Alicia Borinsky3          Lorca, From Country to City: Three Versions of Poet in New York by Christopher Maurer4          “Here Is My Monument”: Translation, Urban Space, and MartÍn Luis GuzmÁn’s Memorias de Pancho Villa by Nicholas Cifuentes Goodbody5          On Languages and Cities: Rethinking the Politics of Calvert Casey’s “El regreso” by Charles Hatfield6          A Palimpsestuous Adaptation: Translating Barcelona in Benet i Jornet's La plaÇa del Diamant by Jennifer Duprey7          Montreal's New LatinitÉ: Spanish-French Connections in a Trilingual City by Hugh Hazelton8          Translating the Local: New York’s Micro-Cosmopolitan Media, from JosÉ MartÍ to the Hyperlocal Hub by Esther Allen9          “litORAL translation    TRADUCCIÓN LIToral” by UrayoÁn Noel10        Coda: The City of the Translator’s Mind by Peter BushAcknowledgmentsBibliographyNotes on ContributorsIndex