Translating Home in the Global South

Isabel C. Gómez is an Associate Professor of Latin American and Iberian Studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston. Her book Cannibal Translation: Literary Reciprocity in Contemporary Latin America (2023) received a 2022 Helen Tarter First Book Subvention Prize from the ACLA. She served as the President of the ICLA Committee on Translation Studies 2020–2023. Currently, her research focuses on the intersection of climate activism and translingual poetics; she has been recipient of a National Humanities Center Residential Fellowship award for her next monograph Divest from English: Eco-Translation and Translingual Repair. Marlene Hansen Esplin is an Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Humanities in the Department of Comparative Arts and Letters at Brigham Young University. Her main research interests are translation studies and US and Latin American literatures. Recent projects include “Approaching Literary Self-Translation in the United States and Latin America” for The Routledge Handbook of Latin American Literary Translation, a review essay on “The ‘Outward Turn’ in Translation Studies” for Recherche littéraire / Literary Research, and an article examining intersections between translation and ethnography in English translations of Cabeza de Vaca’s Relación for Translation Review. She is the Vice President of the ICLA Committee on Translation Studies.

Introduction: Home as a Translingual Practice

ISABEL C. GÓMEZ AND MARLENE HANSEN ESPLIN

PART I: Self-Translation, Collaboration, and Co-Creation in Migrant Writing

1 A Pandemic View of Translation: Novels of Catastrophe and Our Hemispheric Home

MARLENE HANSEN ESPLIN

2 Post-National Refugee Writing on Social Media: Translation as a Strategy of Survival

TATJANA SOLDAT-JAFFE

3 An Almost Invisible Scene: Collaboration and Co-Creation in the Task of Translating Ricardo Piglia

SERGIO WAISMAN

PART II: Detention, Denial of Home, and Border Policing

4 Dwelling in Indeterminacy: Interpreting the Migrant Poet in Detention

ALEXANDRA MARIA LOSSADA

5 Interpreting for Asylum-Seekers by a Former Refugee: Professionalism and Mental Health in Bekim Sejranović’s Transfiction

VIŠNJA JOVANOVIĆ AND FILIP JOVANOVIĆ

6 “A Big, Beautiful Wall”: Experimental Translation and Decolonial Practice in Mónica de la Torre’s Repetition Nineteen

JANET HENDRICKSON

PART III: Stateless Translation and Planetary Ecologies

7 Fluid Voices: Translating Language and Place in Novels of Migration

YAN WU

8 Specters of Home in Agha Shahid Ali’s Translations of Faiz Ahmed Faiz and Mahmoud Darwish

WAFA HAMID

9 A Puerto Rican Poetics of Disaster Relief and Cuir Eco-Translation

ISABEL C. GÓMEZ