Female Translators’ Role in the Circulation of Contemporary Hispanic American Literature in France: Strategies, Processes, Networks, Activisms

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https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.mut.v17n2a10

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bibliodiversity, (transnational) feminist translation studies, female translators, French publishing field, Hispanic-American literature

Abstract

The French publishing field has been, since the 20th century, a key piece in worldwide processes of Latin American literature dissemination, thanks to many intermediaries. Yet, the idea of translation as an activity inferior to writing has led to a historic invisibilization of men and women translators’ figures. This article aims to make visible and inquire into the active role of women translating contemporary Hispanic American literature in France, and their potential influence on the relatively recent boom of literature written by women. From a sociological materialist perspective, I conducted eight semi-structured interviews with women translators, questioning the strategies they used to carve out a place for themselves in their guild, the potential militancies behind deploying those strategies, the material conditions, and the political side of translating. I gathered data related to the ways of access to the profession, contracts, and payment, to established networks, to women translators’ room to maneuver and negotiate, depending on the symbolic positions occupied by each of them in the French publishing field and to the connections they made to promote literary translation. This helped me to define their role as a multi-level mediation (before, during, and after the translating act), involving some militancies in the interviewees’ praxis and discourses: an improvement of material conditions in the trade, make their guild more visible, and achieving bibliodiversity.

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Io Paula de-la-Vega, Cergy-Paris Université-Universidad de Granada

Graduated in Cultural Studies and Management at the Universidad del Claustro de Sor Juana, Master in Rapports sociaux de classe race et genre (Gender, class and race studies) at the University Paris VIII and in Publishing at the University of Cergy Paris. She is currently a PhD student in Hispanic Studies at the University of Cergy Paris and in the Languages, Texts and Contexts Program at the University of Granada (in co-tutelage). She is part of the research team of the MEDETLAT Project (Médiation éditoriale, diffusion et traduction de la littérature latino-américaine en France, de 1945 à 2000) and works on the transnational editorial mediation of contemporary Latin American women authors and the reception of their translated works.

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Published

2024-09-10

How to Cite

de-la-Vega, I. P. (2024). Female Translators’ Role in the Circulation of Contemporary Hispanic American Literature in France: Strategies, Processes, Networks, Activisms. Mutatis Mutandis. Revista Latinoamericana De Traducción, 17(2), 436–459. https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.mut.v17n2a10