Iberian and Translation Studies: Literary Contact Zones offers fertile reflection on the dynamics of linguistic diversity and multifaceted literary translation flows taking place across the Iberian Peninsula. Drawing on cutting-edge theoretical perspectives and on a historically diverse body of case studies, the volume's sixteen chapters explore the key role of translation in shaping interliterary relations and cultural identities within Iberia. Mary Louise Pratt's contact zone metaphor is used as an overarching concept to approach Iberia as a translation(al) space where languages and cultural systems (Basque, Catalan, Galician, Portuguese, and Spanish) set up relationships either of conflict, coercion, and resistance or of collaboration, hospitality, and solidarity.
In bringing together a variety of essays by multilingual scholars whose conceptual and empirical research places itself at the intersection of translation and literary Iberian studies, the book opens up a new interdisciplinary field of enquiry: Iberian translation studies. This allows for a renewed study of canonical authors such as Joan Maragall, Fernando Pessoa, Camilo Jose Cela, and Bernardo Atxaga, and calls attention to emerging bilingual contemporary voices. In addition to addressing understudied genres (the entremez and the picaresque novel) and the phenomena of self-translation, indirect translation, and collaborative translation, the book provides fresh insights into Iberian cultural agents, mediators, and institutions.

About the Author
Esther Gimeno Ugalde is a Postdoc Univ. Assistant in the Department of Romance Studies at the University of Vienna. Marta Pacheco Pinto is a research fellow at the Centre for Comparative Studies, University of Lisbon where she coordinates the project Texts and Contexts of Portuguese Orientalism: The International Congresses of Orientalists (1873-1973). Angela Fernandes is a Researcher and Associate Professor in the School of Arts and Humanities at the University of Lisbon.

Reviews

'This publication is a fundamental reference for any scholar looking to investigate intra-Iberian translations in the near future.' - Santiago Perez Isasi, Universidade de Lisboa

'Positioning the collection of essays that the book brings together between two disciplinary spaces, Translation studies and Iberian studies, Fernandes, Pacheco Pinto, and Gimeno Ugalde propose to forge... a new field of research, "Iberian Translation studies."' - Patricia Lopez-Gay, Bard College

'As we can attest after reading this book, studying the Iberian space as a translation zone undermines the restrictive framework of the nation-state, while questioning conventional binaries such as language/culture of origin vs. target language/culture, creation vs. translation, or author vs. translator, which opens up a promising future for this field of research.' - Rexina Rodriguez Vega, Universidade de Vigo

Book Information
ISBN 9781835537053
Author Esther Gimeno Ugalde
Format Paperback
Page Count 384
Imprint Liverpool University Press
Publisher Liverpool University Press