English Studies in Latin America: A Journal of Cultural and Literary Criticism

Improvisación/Improvisation

Alberto Cruz — Fri, 02 Feb 2024 00:00:00 -0300

Introduction to Translation

Maxwell Woods — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 -0300

La invención de Amereida: El contracanto de Godofredo Iommi en la poesía americana del siglo XX

Manuel Florencio Sanfuentes — Tue, 30 Jan 2024 00:00:00 -0300

Alberto Cruz Covarrubias: breve reseña biográfica

Pablo Chiuminatto, Sara Browne — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 -0300

Notícula al texto Improvisación de Alberto Cruz C.

Pablo Chiuminatto, Sara Browne — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 -0300

Editor’s Note

Andrea Casals-Hill — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 -0300

Translation(s) From Our America(s) / Translation(s) From Abya Yala / Translation(s) From Amereida. Notes For A Decolonial Intervention

Gabriela Veronelli — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 -0300

This article raises two clusters of decolonial questions. The first is the cluster around the discourse or idea of an 'invention' of America in Amereida, the second includes questions regarding the possibility of a decolonial translation of Amereida. More precisely, the second cluster focuses on how to translate the linguistic multiplicity and multiplicity of ideas present in Amereida in a decolonial way that rejects monological unification and affirms an epistemic and ontological multiplicity. In the article, I try to reveal the coloniality of the epic given that revealing its coloniality is the first step to decolonize.

The Influence of the Translation Tradition on the Construction of Identity: Analysis of the English Translation of Amereida

Virginia Mattioli — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 -0300

Translation, culture, and identity are three strictly related concepts. Such a relationship is even more evident in the American continent, whose identity was defined by the literary and translation production based on the vertical relationship between America and Europe. Since then, identity represents an essential although still debated issue in the American context. This study adopts a historical-literary perspective to examine the position of the translation of Amereida into English within the issue of American identity through its comparison with the larger literary and translation tradition. Concretely, the paper presents a translational comparison of the terminology related to the concept of “Americanity” between the English version of Amereida and the translation of the primary and secondary sources used for the creation of the poem. Indeed, as a part of the cultural context, the literary and translation tradition contributes to defining the identity of a community. As a consequence, to remain faithful to the literary and translation tradition which perpetuates the colonial image of America and European superiority implies accepting such vision; on the contrary, to move away from such tradition is a way of refusing the colonialist ideas and proposing a different concept of identity, independent from the Western world. The results suggest that the translation of Amereida tends to perpetuate the literary and translation tradition as well as those colonialist ideas that originated it. Moreover, a more qualitative reading of the results highlights the tendency of the translated poem to remain as faithful as possible to the original text, allowing for an understanding of the interpretation adopted for the translation of the poem. keywords:American identity issue; translation tradition; terminological analysis; translation as a rewriting.

Amereida: An Ever-Expanding Archive

María Teresa Johansson — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 -0300

The journey of Amereida and the poem Amereida can be read as a project of poetic refoundation of the American continent, which is the foundation of the Open City. They also form the basis of an aesthetic, political and formative project in full force and originate an extensive archive. This article analyzes different dimensions of Amereida in relation to a vast archive of writings, images, displacements and supports in intermediate formats. From this perspective, it is proposed that Amereida exceeds the idea of the archive associated with the preservation of memory to expose a performative condition (Taylor) integrated to the utopian dimension (Groys) with an open character that is projected to the present day. Following these orientations, this article analyzes displacement and travel writing as an archive-repertoire with a performative and digital character. Likewise, the poem Amereida is interpreted as a poetics that reactivates the archive of Latin American literature, at the same time that it elaborates a new literary and visual cartography of the continent. Finally, it addresses the utopian impulse of the foundation of the Open City, from which new media archives derive from gender perspectives. The integration of these dimensions projects the actuality of Amereida and its power to shape an expanding archive.

Amereida, First Volume

Colectivo Amereida — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 -0300