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  • Chapter 16 - ‘A Kind of Radical Positivity’

  • Edited by Jan Steyn, University of Iowa
  • Book:
    Translation
    Published online:
    23 September 2022
    Print publication:
    22 September 2022, pp 266-283

  • Summary

    This chapter is a written exchange, between five women with different stakes in literary translation, that took place in 2019. It touches on translation craft, the formation of translators, who gets to translate what, questions of accessibility and privilege, the intimacies between the author and translator, the negative affect that comes with translating in a culture of rampant ‘gotcha’ criticism, translation as collaboration, among other topics. It is a conversation without consensus and clearly without end – but powered by an ongoing investment in thinking, reading and writing translations.

  • Chapter 17 - Brazilian Literature

  • from Part III - Literary Contexts
  • Edited by Angus Cleghorn, Seneca College, Canada, Jonathan Ellis, University of Sheffield
  • Book:
    Elizabeth Bishop in Context
    Published online:
    06 August 2021
    Print publication:
    26 August 2021, pp 198-208

  • Summary

    Elizabeth Bishop’s contact with Brazilian literature began in the 1950s and extended over a long period of fruitful dialogue with Brazilian writers. Particularly, four poets and a prose writer had important roles in Bishop’s translations and her own poetic production: Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Manuel Bandeira, Vinicius de Moraes, João Cabral de Melo Neto and Clarice Lispector. Correspondences between Bishop and Andrade include the coincidence of recreating memories of childhood and depicting Rio’s urban repertoire. Bishop’s connection with Bandeira range from her poem “To Manuel Bandeira, With a Present” to various other writings. The closest to Bishop, Moraes is present in translation and memories of Ouro Preto. Melo Neto’s and Lispector’s resonances in Bishop’s poetry are respectively visible in “The Burglar of Babylon” and “Brazil, January 1, 1502.” In a discussion that includes epistolary texts, translations, and poetry, this chapter offers a contextual reading of Bishop’s relation with these writers.

  • 14 - The Women of the Avant-Gardes

  • from Part III - Women Writers In-Between: Socialist, Modern, Developmentalists, and Liberal Democratic Ideals
  • Edited by Ileana Rodríguez, Ohio State University, Mónica Szurmuk
  • Book:
    The Cambridge History of Latin American Women's Literature
    Published online:
    05 November 2015
    Print publication:
    12 November 2015, pp 243-260

  • Summary

    This chapter focuses on major nineteenth-century women novelists and on the extent of their participation in the project of writing nationhood, despite their supposedly limited experience. It addresses questions such as how their novels interrogate the social arrangements and the aesthetic ideology of romantic fictions of identity and how they appropriated a masculine genre to delineate a tradition of resistance to the confluence of gender and genre. The chapter begins with three pioneer women writers, Cecilia Meireles, Rachel de Queiroz and Clarice Lispector, who produced pieces of imaginative prose as examples that combine the employment of gender-conscious authorship with a desire to represent woman as a political gesture. Finally, the chapter examines a selected body of writers and works that stand as a literary subculture that evolved under the emergence of a new Brazilian woman and the woman of letters particularly in the cultures of historiography and of literary criticism.

  • 23 - Central American Women’s Literature

  • from Part III - Women Writers In-Between: Socialist, Modern, Developmentalists, and Liberal Democratic Ideals
  • Edited by Ileana Rodríguez, Ohio State University, Mónica Szurmuk
  • Book:
    The Cambridge History of Latin American Women's Literature
    Published online:
    05 November 2015
    Print publication:
    12 November 2015, pp 396-409

  • Summary

    Especially from the latter half of the twentieth century, writings of Latin American women variously reckon with dissident cosmopolitanisms, as they give way to political and aesthetic contestations of liberal and elitist cultural agendas of modernization that are usually associated with cosmopolitanism. The history of feminism abounds with examples of what one might call a planetary imagination. Produced by contests over citizenship and limited participation of women in issues of national politics, feminist struggles have persistently pointed toward transnational, international, or internationalist horizons. This chapter focuses on the ways cosmopolitanism destabilizes gender/sexual normativity, producing alternative imaginaries of community and affect. It describes the extent to which cosmopolitics reconfigures the threshold and the relationship between the human and the nonhuman, through the lenses of Clarice Lispector's writing. Lispector places at the center of her writing project an interrogation of the relationship between gender and belonging, paying special attention to the ways in which spaces are articulated through a gendered grammar.