Translation as Home

Ilan Stavans is the Lewis-Sebring Professor of Humanities, Latin American, and Latino Culture at Amherst College. Regina Galasso is an associate professor in the Spanish and Portuguese Studies Program and the director of the Translation Center at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Introduction
Room for Language: Moving into Translation
Regina Galasso

Part One: Language on Fire

We Are the Clarion: A Manifesto on Immigration
On Packing Up My Library
Retelling Popol Vuh – in Chinese
“English as She Spoke It”: The Fallacy of American Studies (with Steven G. Kellman)
Olga Takarczuk’s Messianic Critique
Does Literature Teach Us How to Die? (with Priyanka Champaneri) 
The People’s Tongue: Language as Character
Claudio Lomnitz’s Vertigo
Rethinking the Classics (with Jenna Tang)
Pierre Menard: Retranslation and Approximation (with Youssef Boucetta)
Fernando Pessoa’s Selves
On Borges’s Blindness (with Max Ubelaker Andrade)
How Yiddish Changed America and How America Changed Yiddish (with Josh Lambert)
The Anxiety of Translation (with Robert Croll)
We Are All Drafts: The Erotics of Translation (with Peter Cole)

Part Two: Dictionaries as Confidants

Notes on Latino Philology
The Miasma of Order; or, Why Dictionaries Ought to Be Seen as Literature
Is American Spanish Healthy?
On Decidophobia (with Haoran Tong)
“Clean, Fix, and Grant Splendor”: The Making of Diccionario de autoridades
Pablo Neruda’s “Ode to the Dictionary”
Letter to a Young Translator
How Dictionaries Define Us (with Margaret Boyle)

Part Three: Translation as Home

Sor Juana in Nahuatl
On Memes as Semiotic Hand-Grenades (with Mª Carmen África Vidal Claramonte)
Peter Brook’s Space
On Translating the Disappearance into Yiddish (with Beruriah Wiegand)
Is I Me, or Who Is I? Conversation with Jim
Petrarch’s Sonnet #132
A Lover Alone in Prison (with Sara Khalili)
Roberto Bolaño’s Tantrums
Jevel Katz in Yingleñol
Matching Socks in the Dark; or, How to Translate from Languages You Don’t Know
Self-Translation como survival mecanismo
Simply Gimpl
Homestead: “La casa pairal” from the Manuscript of Reus (with Regina Galasso)
Translation as Home (with Regina Galasso)
Immigrants in Quarantine (with Jhumpa Lahiri and Eduardo Halfon)

Coda: The Hermeneutics of Translation

Reading the Talmud in Mexico: A Confession

Contributors
Index