After Translation: The Transfer and Circulation of Modern Poetics Across the Atlantic

Ignacio Infante

Published by Fordham University Press 2013

After Translation

The Transfer and Circulation of Modern Poetics Across the Atlantic

Ignacio Infante

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823252145

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About this book

This book examines from a transnational and multilingual perspective the Transatlantic flow of modern poetry and poetics. It includes chapters on poets Fernando Pessoa, Vicente Huidobro, Federico García Lorca, Jack Spicer, Kamau Brathwaite and Haroldo and Augusto de Campos.

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Infante Ignacio :

Ignacio Infante is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and Spanish at Washington University in St. Louis.

Reviews

With an eye towards the future, but still completely aware of the historical past, Infante invites his audience to envision a new framework for approaching transatlantic poetry.

By no means an easy read, this partisan, polemical, and political study will surely occasion both praise and opprobrium for its spirited challenge to the divided status quo in translation, cultural, and transatlantic studies. . . Recommended

If "in the beginning was translation," as the Finnish digital poet Leevi Lehto suggests, then Infante’s new study enumerates for us some of the exciting things that come after.

As a study of literary networks of influence in relation to poetics and translation, Infante's study has much to call attention and provoke further work.

Ignacio Infante’s After Translation is a milestone in the process of overcoming longstanding and hardly justifiable boundaries, not only in so-called Latin American and Iberian Studies, but also in the wider context of the relationships between Spanish and Portuguese Studies and Cultural Studies/Theory at large.

—Rebecca Walkowitz:
“. . . an original, ambitious, and timely contribution to several established and emerging fields: comparative modernisms, transnational literary studies, poetics, and translation studies.”

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
List of Illustrations Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Introduction. Poetry after Translation: Cultural Circulation and the Transferability of Form in Modern Transatlantic Poetry Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1. Heteronymies of Lusophone Englishness: Colonial Empire, Fetishism, and Simulacrum in Fernando Pessoa’s English Poems I–III Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	22
2. The Translatability of Planetary Poiesis: Vicente Huidobro’s Creacionismo in Temblor de cielo /Tremblement de ciel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	51
3. Queering the Poetic Body: Stefan George, Federico García Lorca, and the Translational Poetics of the Berkeley Renaissance Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	81
4. Transferring the “Luminous Detail”: Sousândrade, Pound, and the Imagist Origins of Brazilian Concrete Poetry Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	117
5. The Digital Vernacular: “Groundation” and the Temporality of Translation in the Postcolonial Caribbean Poetics of Kamau Brathwaite Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	146
Afterword. The Location of Translation: The Atlantic and the (Relational) Literary History of Modern Transnational Poetics Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	177
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	189
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	199
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	211

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Language: English
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Pages
- Main content: 232
Keywords: translation; poetics; modernism; transatlantic literature; modern poetry; avant-garde; cultural circulation; postcolonialism; literary history; multilingualism

eBook

Published: May 1, 2013
ISBN: 9780823252145