World Literatures 178 - Naughty Fictional Translators
Naughty Fictional Translators
Fall
2024
01
4.00
Reyes Lázaro
M W 10:50 AM - 12:05 PM
Smith College
WLT-178-01-202501
rlazaro@smith.edu
WLT 178-01, SPN 178-01
Offered as WLT 178 and SPN 178. This course focuses on fictional portraits of iconoclastic translators and interpreters. The first two months are devoted to a (relatively) "slow reading" of Don Quijote as a pioneer text in terms of attributing a central role to a fictional translator. The third month is devoted to international films and short stories--largely, but not exclusively, from the Spanish-speaking world, which has experienced a remarkable upsurge of "transfictions" (i.e., fictions about translators) since the ‘90s. Taught in English.