Seminar (GlobaLS): "Networks of Exchanges between Latin America and Translation Studies"

Program

Summary

Co-editor of The Routledge Handbook of Latin American Literary Translation, Denise Kripper will be presenting this volume, which offers an understanding of translation in Latin America both at a regional and transnational scale. Broad in scope, the handbook is devoted primarily to thinking comprehensively and systematically about the intersection of literary translation and Latin American literature, with a curated selection of original essays that critically engage with translation theories and practices outside of hegemonic Anglo centers. In this seminar, Kripper will discuss the genesis of, and pathways to, the project, its intended aims, and its reception and outlook, focusing especially in the US-context. The first of its kind in English, this Handbook sheds light on diverse translation approaches and invite a rethinking of intercultural and interlingual exchanges from Latin American viewpoints, making it a productive source and reference material for all scholars, researchers, and students of literary translation studies, Latin American literature, and comparative literature.

Denise Kripper

Translation studies scholar and a literary translator. She is the author of Narratives of Mistranslation: Fictional Translators in Latin American Literature (Routledge 2023) and the co-editor of The Routledge Handbook of Latin American Literary Translation (Routledge 2023). She is Associate Professor at Lake Forest College (Chicago, IL- USA) and the translation editor at Latin American Literature Today.