Incomparable Empires: Modernism and the Translation of Spanish and American Literature

Gayle Rogers

Published by Columbia University Press 2016

Incomparable Empires

Modernism and the Translation of Spanish and American Literature

Gayle Rogers

In the series Modernist Latitudes

https://doi.org/10.7312/roge17856

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About this book

Rogers uncovers the arguments that forged the politics and aesthetics of modernism. He revisits the role of empire—from its institutions to its cognitive effects—in shaping a nation’s literature and culture.

Author / Editor information

Gayle Rogers is associate professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh. He is the author of Modernism and the New Spain: Britain, Cosmopolitan Europe, and Literary History (2012) and coauthor, with Sean Latham, of Modernism: Evolution of an Idea (2015).

Reviews

Rogers has written a superlative examination of modernismo's cultural and literary production.... Essential.

Alejandro Mejías-López, author of The Inverted Conquest: The Myth of Modernity and the Transatlantic Onset of Modernism:
A groundbreaking contribution to such transnational fields as global modernism and world literature studies.

César Domínguez, coauthor of Introducing Comparative Literature: New Trends and Applications:
Taking the Jamesonian view of imperialism in unexpected and original directions, Rogers explores the rivalry of the Spanish and U.S. empires at the intersection of modernism and translation. This volume achieves what one would have thought possible only from several books, namely writing a new history of two fields traditionally considered to be unrelated: Hispanism and American studies.

Donald E. Pease, author of The New American Exceptionalism:
By de-coupling their translational practices from the national literary traditions and imperial teleologies they were supposed to express and reflect, the writers analyzed in Incomparable Empires carved out creative spaces that radically reconfigured U.S. and Spanish literatures. Rogers's brilliantly contextualized recovery of their alternative stratagems of translation promises to foster a grand scale re-thinking of the formation, structure, and purposes of our extant comparative literary histories of the early twentieth century.

Joshua L. Miller, author of Accented America: The Cultural Politics of Multilingual Modernism:
Gayle Rogers develops a complex and nuanced literary history of political, institutional, and aesthetic transformations through translation across two empires. Incomparable Empires is an immense achievement for global and comparative modernist studies.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	vii
Introduction: Modernism, Translation, and the Fields of Literary History Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
I. American Modernism’s Hispanists
1. “Splintered Staves”: Pound, Comparative Literature, and the Translation of Spanish Literary History Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	37
2. Restaging the Disaster: Dos Passos, Empire, and Literature After the Spanish-American War Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	76
II. Spain’s American Translations
3. Jiménez, Modernism/o, and the Languages of Comparative Modernist Studies Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	109
4. Unamuno, Nativism, and the Politics of the Vernacular; or, On the Authenticity of Translation Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	137
III. New Genealogies
5. Negro and Negro: Translating American Blackness in the Shadows of the Spanish Empire Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	167
6. “Spanish Is a Language Tu”: Hemingway’s Cubist Spanglish and Its Legacies Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	199
Conclusion: Worlds Between Languages— The Spanglish Quixote Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	227
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	237
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	287

Language: English
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 312

eBook

Published: December 19, 2016
ISBN: 9780231542982