This study examines the role of translation in the reception and influence of three canonical authors of Latin American literature in the United States: Jorge Luis Borges (Argentina), Pablo Neruda (Chile), and Machado de Assis (Brazil). I establish a sliding scale of translation quality that considers both literary and extraliterary factors in their US receptions. I also explore the concept of translation failure, arguing that a translation truly fails when it consistently misinterprets and misrepresents the source text. A failed translation hinders the reception of Latin American literature in the United States because it offers a distorted, and therefore unreliable, version of the original text to the American reader. In the case of Brazil, these failed translations have seriously compromised the reputation of Brazilian letters in the United States and in the developing field of inter-American literature.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:VANDERBILT/oai:VANDERBILTETD:etd-12012010-145738 |
| Date | 06 December 2010 |
| Creators | Krause, James Remington |
| Contributors | Earl E. Fitz, William Luis, Emanuelle Oliveira, Marshall C. Eakin |
| Publisher | VANDERBILT |
| Source Sets | Vanderbilt University Theses |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://etd.library.vanderbilt.edu/available/etd-12012010-145738/ |
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