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Galasso, Regina. 2018. Translating New York: the city's languages in Iberian literatures (Contemporary Hispanic and Lusophone Cultures 17). Liverpool: Liverpool University Press. 216 pp.
Publication type
Monograph
Publication language
English
Source language
Person as a subject
Main ISBN
978-1-800-85580-9
Edition info
ISBN (hardback): 9781786941121 ISBN (paperback): 9781800855809 ISBN (e-book): 9781786948670

Abstract

The cultural production of Spanish-speaking New York is closely linked to the Caribbean and to Latin America at large, but the city also plays a pivotal role in the work of a host of authors from the Iberian Peninsula, writing in Spanish, Catalan, and English. Their New York City texts have marked their careers and the history of their national literatures. Drawing from a variety of genres, this book recovers cultural narratives occluded by single linguistic or national literary histories, and proposes that reading these texts through the lens of translation unveils new pathways of cultural circulation and influence. Looking beyond representations of the city's physical space, it suggests that travel to the city and contact with New York's multilingual setting ignited a heightened sensitivity towards both the verbal and non-verbal languages of the city, garnering literary achievement and aesthetic innovation. Analyzing the novels, poetry, and travel narratives of Felipe Alfau, José Moreno Villa, Julio Camba, and Josep Pla, this book uncovers an international perspective of Iberian literatures.
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