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information: Noddy has flown up to William Barret International to meet Hap. (…) Hoy por la mañana a eso de las once, it starts again: I’m at the Ranch with a pile of papers for Noddy to sign and N. calls Ira. Éste por poco se desmaya; I mean I could hear the breathing! (Extract from letter 14.) 5 ...Me dio mucho gusto en verlos (a Israel y Aarón) pero como vinieron preocupados por mí, eso por poco me amarga la ocasión. But we had fun, ya sabes. Desde mi ventana veo pasar a medio Khail, but only cuando me da la gana. (Extract from the last letter, 22.) 6 This strategy is used in El sueño de América: esquiús? (49), beibisit (112), plé det > play date (204). Works Cited Anzaldúa, Gloria. Borderlands. La Frontera. San Francisco: Aunt Lute Books. 1987. Dasenbrock, Reed. “An Interview with Rolando Hinojosa” Translation Review 27. Dallas: University of Texas. 1988. 3–8. Dingwaney, Anuradha and Maier, Carol eds. Between Languages and Culture: Translation and Cross-Cultural Texts. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press. 1995. Foucault, Michel. Discipline and Punishment. New York: Vintage. 1978. Hinojosa, Rolando. Mi Querido Rafa. Houston: Arte Público. 1981. Hinojosa, Rolando. Dear Rafe. Houston: Arte Público. 1985. Malakoff, Marguerite and Hakuta, Kenji. “Translation Skill and Metalinguistic Awareness in Bilinguals” in Language Processing in Bilingual Children. [Ed. E. Bialystock] Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1991. Melucci, Alberto. “Identity and Difference in a Globalized World” Debating Cultural Hybridity 58-70 [Ed. P. Werbner and T. Modood] London/New Jersey: Zed Books. 1997. Peñalosa, Fernando. Chicano Sociolinguistics. Massachusetts: Newbury House. 1980. Santiago, Esmeralda. Cuando era puertorriqueña. New York: Vintage Books. 1994. Santiago, Esmeralda. El sueño de América. Barcelona: Grijalbo/Mondadori. 1996. Venuti, L. The Scandals of Translation: Towards an Ethics of Difference. London and New York: Routledge. 1998. 34 Translation Review
FIVE TRANSLATORS TRANSLATING: READING BLOOD MERIDIAN FROM ENGLISH INTO ENGLISH, SPANISH INTO ENGLISH, AND ENGLISH INTO SPANISH By Michael Scott Doyle Can a translation ever communicate to its readers the understanding of the foreign text that the foreign readers have? “Translation, Community, Utopia,” Lawrence Venuti What will he do with the rebellious text? Isn’t it too much to ask that he also be rebellious, particularly since the text is someone else’s? “The Misery and Splendor of Translation,” José Ortega y Gasset The task of the translator is surely to work out a strategy that allows the most insistent and decisive effects of that performance to resurface in the translated text and to assume an importance sufficient to suggest the vital status of stratified or contrapuntal writing in the original. “The Measure of Translation Effects,” Philip E. Lewis God dont lie, he said. No, said the judge. He does not. And these are his words. He held up a chunk of rock. He speaks in stones and trees, the bones of things. Blood Meridian T The desert wind would salt their ruins and there would be nothing, nor ghost nor scribe, to tell any pilgrim in his passing how it was that people had lived in this place and in this place died. Blood Meridian o read Blood Meridian, “the major esthetic achievement of any living American writer,” 1 in its original English is to become already engaged in the act of translation. Whether to translate or not is rhetorical. The reader of this apocalyptic gothic-esperpentopicaresque 2 novel — a pilgrim struggling through the desert-wind words of the authorscribe who has indeed left us a written account of people and place 3 — has no choice in the matter. Set mainly in 1849–1850 4 in the profitable frontier “bloodlands” 5 (138) of westward expansion between the porous Texas- Mexico border and California, 6 where the “receipts” 7 against payment are in principle aboriginal scalps 8 and all protagonists are “trammeled to the chords of rawest destiny” (154), the complexities of this lyrically gory American English masterpiece 9 press into service the first-among-readers, the nativelanguage English reader, as an intralingual translator 10 of the source-language text (SLT), anticipating the work of the interlingual translator, who in turn will later enfold the intralingual translating process into that of the subsequent interlingual re-creation, translation proper across two languages, English into Spanish. Because the typical or average reader, or even the accomplished amateur or professional, does not share Cormac McCarthy’s precise knowledge and unprecedented use of words in Blood Meridian — the breadth of his Translation Review 35
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Page 12 and 13: grammatical rules, for example —
Page 14 and 15: NOTES ON “NOTES ON TRANSLATION”
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Page 20 and 21: FEMINIST TRANSLATION AS INTERPRETAT
Page 22 and 23: Feminist Translation in Practice To
Page 24 and 25: in the current age. The play hinges
Page 26 and 27: This sense of parody and backwardne
Page 28 and 29: attempt to translate the title but
Page 30 and 31: 18 Ibid., 30. 19 As one can see, my
Page 32 and 33: HINOJOSA’S SELF-TRANSLATION OF DE
Page 34 and 35: of this collocation means that Jeh
Page 36 and 37: linked to personal affairs and fami
Page 40 and 41: lexicon and taxonomies; his play ac
Page 42 and 43: plowed ground); helve (275: handle
Page 44 and 45: enterprise… and you turned a deaf
Page 46 and 47: soapweed (105), piñon and scruboak
Page 48 and 49: and serapes (199). These are words
Page 50 and 51: Quiere trabajo, said the old man. Q
Page 52 and 53: dialogue, in which the captain (met
Page 54 and 55: to which McCarthy translates in Blo
Page 56 and 57: Spanished as “Nueva Orleans” (a
Page 58 and 59: he said. (90) We thought you was in
Page 60 and 61: eader becomes disoriented and often
Page 62 and 63: For each fire is all fires, the fir
Page 64 and 65: That is the way it was and will be.
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Page 70 and 71: Woodward, Richard B. “Cormac McCa
Page 72 and 73: suggested that I look at Feydeau, a
Page 74 and 75: of research. I put them aside, and
Page 76 and 77: NS: You try to get both, if possibl
Page 78 and 79: All Gall: Malicious Monologues and
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Page 82 and 83: individually, however, they are rat
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Many Latin American writers have ha
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