New Approaches to Translation, Conflict and Memory: Narratives of the Spanish Civil War and the Dictatorship

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This interdisciplinary edited collection establishes a new dialogue between translation, conflict and memory studies focusing on fictional texts, reports from war zones and audiovisual representations of the Spanish Civil War and the Franco Dictatorship. It explores the significant role of translation in transmitting a recent past that continues to resonate within current debates on how to memorialize this inconclusive historical episode. The volume combines a detailed analysis of well-known authors such as Langston Hughes and John Dos Passos, with an investigation into the challenges found in translating novels such as The Group by Mary McCarthy (considered a threat to the policies established by the dictatorial regime), and includes more recent works such as El tiempo entre costuras by María Dueñas. Further, it examines the reception of the translations and whether the narratives cross over effectively in various contexts. In doing so it provides an analysis of the landscape of the Spanish conflict and dictatorship in translation that allows for an intergenerational and transcultural dialogue. It will appeal to students and scholars of translation, history, literature and cultural studies. Front Matter ....Pages i-xxiii Front Matter ....Pages 1-1 Emerging Trends in Reassessing Translation, Conflict, and Memory (Alicia Castillo Villanueva, Lucía Pintado Gutiérrez)....Pages 3-20 Front Matter ....Pages 21-21 The Writer as Notional Translator: Langston Hughes and His Transcultural Racial Interpretation of the Spanish Civil War (Patricia San José)....Pages 23-43 Empathy and Engagement in Translation: Langston Hughes’s Versions of Lorca’s Gypsy Ballads (Andrew Samuel Walsh)....Pages 45-63 Front Matter ....Pages 65-65 Translating for the Legions of Babel: Spain 1936–1938 (Marcos Rodríguez-Espinosa)....Pages 67-87 Front Matter ....Pages 89-89 Depicting Censorship Under Franco’s Dictatorship: Mary McCarthy, a Controversial Figure (Pilar Godayol)....Pages 91-111 Censorship and the Translation of Children’s Literature: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in Franco’s Spain (1939–1975) (Julia Lin Thompson)....Pages 113-141 Adventures of a Young Man vs. Las aventuras de un joven: John Dos Passos’s Fictional Enunciation of the Spanish Civil War in Franco’s Spain (Rosa María Bautista-Cordero)....Pages 143-160 Front Matter ....Pages 161-161 The Translation of Memory Through Television: El tiempo entre costuras and the Spanish Civil War (Kyra A. Kietrys)....Pages 163-184 Voices, Whispers and Silence: Translating Defeat and Building Memories of the Spanish Civil War and Francoism (Inês Espada Vieira)....Pages 185-205 Memory and Translation in La cabellera de la Shoá [The Hair of the Shoah] (2015) by Félix Grande (María Pilar Cáceres Casillas)....Pages 207-226 Back Matter ....Pages 227-234