Rediscovering Rubn Daro through Translation
(Hardback)
Publishing Details
Rediscovering Rubn Daro through Translation
By (Author) Dr. Carlos F. Grigsby
Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Bloomsbury Publishing USA
11th July 2024
United States
Classifications
Professional and Scholarly
Non Fiction
Translation and interpretation
Bilingualism and multilingualism
Comparative literature
861.5
Physical Properties
Hardback
184
Width 152mm, Height 229mm
Description
A long overdue examination of Rubn Daro's multilingual work and influences alongside the contexts and politics of canonization in world literature. Rediscovering Rubn Daro through Translation addresses the peculiar obscurity of Daro by asking these questions: How can one of the most important writers of a major world language be almost entirely unknown in the English-speaking world How is it that other writers of the same language (e.g., Lorca or Garca Mrquez) achieve widespread recognition in the anglophone world, while he remains unnoticed What role does translation play in this What can it tell us about the way in which world literature is articulated Carlos F. Grigsby approaches Daros oeuvre through translation. In doing so, he explores not only the place of Daro in the translation of Spanish American literature into English, but also the place of translation in Daros own writing. The result is a double-sided painting, as it were: the recto is titled Translation in Daro and the verso Daro in Translation. This book challenges the field of world literature by revealing some of the biases present in its representation of Spanish American literature. It adopts a multilingual framework chiefly using English, Spanish, French, and to a lesser degree Latin and Catalan in analyzing Daros writing alongside that of his contemporaries. As a result, it reveals the multilingualism of Daros own writing, opening new avenues for the study of his work and of Spanish American modernismo more generally.
Author Bio
Carlos F. Grigsby is a Nicaraguan poet and a lecturer in Latin American Studies at the University of Bristol, UK. He has published articles on Daro in journals such as the Bulletin of Spanish Studies and Modern Language Review, and chapters in collections such as Multilingual Literature as World Literature (Bloomsbury, 2021) and Central American Literatures as World Literature (Bloomsbury, 2023).
