Translation and Rewriting in Latin(x) American Literature (LA)

Subject associations
LAS 369 / COM 360 / TRA 369 / SPA 369
Term
Fall 2023
Instructors
Olivia M. Lott
Registrar description

Beginning as early as Don Quixote, experiments with translation have long accompanied Hispanic literary innovation and, often, political subversion. In this course, we will consider Latin American and Latinx texts from across much of 20th and 21st centuries that engage translation as trope, form, or material rearrangements (including translation narratives, fake translations, mistranslations, transcreations, conceptual experiments) and those that rewrite established texts from the margins. We will read these materials alongside translation theory and criticism to tease out the aesthetics and politics of translation in each undertaking.