Literatura Nullius: The Untranslatability of Eduardo Lalo and the Multirelation of the Puerto Rican Intellectual

Autor:	Natalie L. Belisle
Rok vydání:	2014
Předmět:	Cultural Studies Literature Literature and Literary Theory Sociology and Political Science Untranslatability business.industry Anthropology Republic of Letters Puerto rican Politics Literary space Schema (psychology) Premise Sociology business
Zdroj:	Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism. 18:64-77
ISSN:	1534-6714 0799-0537
DOI:	10.1215/07990537-2826461
Popis:	This essay mines the concept of untranslatability in two texts by Eduardo Lalo: Los paises invisibles and La inutilidad . The analysis interrogates the juridical implications of translation within the “world republic of letters,” which ostensibly accrues literary capital to texts produced within a particular national context. On this premise, Natalie L. Belisle argues that “untranslatability” designates the exclusion of texts originating in juridically indeterminate spaces, such as Puerto Rico, from world literary space. Building primarily on theories of language and translation in the writing of Edouard Glissant, among others, the author suggests that Lalo’s work deploys untranslatability as a means of affirming the literary and political identity of Puerto Rican writers’ against the classificatory schema of world literary space and the canon.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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