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LASA 2012 panel - Translation in Latin America | Latin America in Translation
| Location: | California, United States |
| Call for Papers Date: | 2011-03-24 (Archive) |
| Date Submitted: |
2011-03-09 |
| Announcement ID: |
183731 |
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LASA 2012 * The Thirtieth International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association
San Francisco, California * May 23-26, 2012
Translation in Latin America | Latin America in Translation
This panel will explore the politics and poetics of translation in Latin America over the past two centuries. We welcome interventions in Spanish or English that address: the role of translation in the establishment and development of literary traditions in Latin America, translation and the global dynamics of cultural exchange, Latin American literature in translation, or the literary representation of any or all of these processes. Accepted papers will be circulated among panel participants one week before the conference; presentations should last 15-20 minutes each and will be followed by a roundtable discussion.
Abstracts of 250 words by 24 March 2011 to Heather Cleary Wolfgang (hmc2115@columbia.edu) or Elena Peregrina (eperegri@princeton.edu).
Congress Theme:
A number of Latin American countries already are celebrating, or soon will celebrate, the achievement of 200 years of national independence. The bicentennial commemorations represent not only an opportunity to convey and promote a sense of national unity based on collective accomplishments, but also an occasion for political, intellectual, and cultural reassessments of the past and present. In general, they are characterized by more complex views of the meaning of the revolutionary wars and of the scale of the social, economic, and human costs of nation- building and modernization, especially in relation to indigenous and other subaltern populations. The result of this reconsideration is a relatively more diverse and inclusive notion of collective identity—one that takes into account the coexistence of many different (at times antagonistic) ethnic, sexual, and social histories. Although deep social inequalities still persist, the celebrations also coincide with an unprecedented period of democratic rule. The bicentennials offer an excellent opportunity for a multidisciplinary discussion about the multiple ways of constructing the past and forecasting the future; the new meanings of “independence,” “revolution,” and “national identity;” the role of Latin America in the new global economic order; and the transformative power and limitations of democratic institutions in Latin America’s third century of national independence.
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Heather Cleary Wolfgang
(hmc2115@columbia.edu)
Elena Peregrina
(eperegri@princeton.edu)
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