After translation : the transfer and circulation of modern poetics across the Atlantic / Ignacio Infante.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Infante, Ignacio.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--20th century--History and criticism.

American poetry.

Modernism (Literature).

Poetics--History--20th century.

Poetics.

Poetry--Translating.

Poetry.

Spanish American poetry--20th century--History and criticism.

Spanish American poetry.

Transnationalism in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (232 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Fordham University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Translation—from both a theoretical and a practical point of view—articulates differing but interconnected modes of circulation in the work of writers originally from different geographical areas of transatlantic encounter, such as Europe, Latin America, North America, and the Caribbean. After Translation examines from a transnational perspective the various ways in which translation facilitates the circulation of modern poetry and poetics across the Atlantic. It rethinks the theoretical paradigm of Anglo-American “modernism” based on the transnational, interlingual, and transhistorical features of the work of key modern poets writing on both sides of the Atlantic— namely, the Portuguese Fernando Pessoa; the Chilean Vicente Huidobro; the Spaniard Federico Garcia Lorca; the San Francisco–based poets Jack Spicer, Robert Duncan, and Robin Blaser; the Barbadian Kamau Brathwaite; and the Brazilian brothers Haroldo and Augusto de Campos.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction. Poetry after Translation: Cultural Circulation and the Transferability of Form in Modern Transatlantic Poetry

1. Heteronymies of Lusophone Englishness: Colonial Empire, Fetishism, and Simulacrum in Fernando Pessoa’s English Poems I–III

2. The Translatability of Planetary Poiesis: Vicente Huidobro’s Creacionismo in Temblor de cielo /Tremblement de ciel

3. Queering the Poetic Body: Stefan George, Federico García Lorca, and the Translational Poetics of the Berkeley Renaissance

4. Transferring the “Luminous Detail”: Sousândrade, Pound, and the Imagist Origins of Brazilian Concrete Poetry

5. The Digital Vernacular: “Groundation” and the Temporality of Translation in the Postcolonial Caribbean Poetics of Kamau Brathwaite

Afterword. The Location of Translation: The Atlantic and the (Relational) Literary History of Modern Transnational Poetics

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

0-8232-5214-0

0-8232-5283-3

0-8232-5179-9

OCLC:

847623353