Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: New York as an Iberian City; New York Moments; Expanding Iberian Literatures; Traveling, Translating; Outline of the Book; I: Translational Language: Felipe Alfau's Iberian English and Its Afterlife; Finding Felipe Alfau; Alfau's Language; Translation Happens; Español Is Not Spanish; Alfau in Literature; Conclusions; II: The Source of an Avant-Garde Voice: Music and Photography in José Moreno Villa; Useful New York; A Portrait of José Moreno Villa; Photography in Writing; Marking up the Text; Beyond Spanish and English
Poetry NotesNew York in a Few Words; Anticipating Lorca; Final Shot; III: Travel in Translation: Julio Camba and Joseph Pla Write for a Home Audience; Reading from a Distance; From the Iberian Periphery; On Julio Camba; Camba and New York; Un año en el otro mundo; La ciudad automática; Final Note on Camba; Joesph Pla; Pla as a Translator; More than a Weekend, More than New York; The Language of Week-end (d'estiu) a New-York; The Writing Continues; Conclusions; Coda: Re-Creating a Classic; Bibliography; Index
Summary
The pre-publication version of Translating New York was awarded the 2017 Northeast Modern Language Association Book Award for the best unpublished book-length manuscript on modern language literature. Drawing from several genres, Translating New York recovers cultural narratives occluded by single linguistic or national literary histories, and proposes that reading these texts through the lens of translation unveils new pathways of cultural circulation and influence. Galasso argues that contact with New York ignited a heightened sensitivity towards language, garnering literary achievement and a
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-187) and index
