The Translators Visibility by Heather Cleary - 9781501353697

The Translators VisibilityScenes from Contemporary Latin American Fiction\nAuthor(s): Heather Cleary\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, United States\nImprint: Bloomsbury Academic\nISBN-13: 9781501353697, 978-1501353697\nSynopsis\nAt the intersection of translation studies and Latin American literary studies, The Translators Visibility examines contemporary novels by a cohort of writers including prominent figures such as Cristina Rivera Garza, Csar Aira, Mario Bellatin, Valeria Luiselli, and Luis Fernando Verissimo who foreground translation in their narratives.\n\n Drawing on Latin Americas long tradition of critical and creative engagement of translation, these novels explicitly, visibly, use major tropes of translation theory such as gendered and spatialized metaphors for the practice, and the concept of untranslatability to challenge the strictures of intellectual property and propriety while shifting asymmetries of discursive authority, above all betwe.