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"""Gómez's hugely erudite, multidisciplinary study of translation in Latin America--which finds theoretical sources not only in translation studies but also in anthropology, philosophy, Latin American studies, and other fields--brilliantly decolonizes, decenters, contests, and undoes prevailing paradigms. Gómez pushes back on translation studies' Anglocentric tendencies by focusing primarily on translations between Spanish and Portuguese, and pushes boundaries in other directions, as well, not limiting her analyses to the printed word but including songs, graphic design, and even, in the final chapter (which redefines translation once again), digital media from Augusto de Campos's Instagram account."" --Esther Allen, translator of Zama by Antonio Di Benedetto ""Cannibalism has been a provocative metaphor for translation, especially in Isabel C. Gómez's fascinating study. Through her close readings, Gómez analyzes the vital function of mutual translations or transcreations among great poets and translators in Spanish, Portuguese, and English as a gift, or an act of literary reciprocity."" --Suzanne Jill Levine, author of The Subversive Scribe: Translating Latin American Fiction"

Gomez's hugely erudite, multidisciplinary study of translation in Latin America--which finds theoretical sources not only in translation studies but also in anthropology, philosophy, Latin American studies, and other fields--brilliantly decolonizes, decenters, contests, and undoes prevailing paradigms. Gomez pushes back on translation studies' Anglocentric tendencies by focusing primarily on translations between Spanish and Portuguese, and pushes boundaries in other directions, as well, not limiting her analyses to the printed word but including songs, graphic design, and even, in the final chapter (which redefines translation once again), digital media from Augusto de Campos's Instagram account. --Esther Allen, translator of Zama by Antonio Di Benedetto Cannibalism has been a provocative metaphor for translation, especially in Isabel C. Gomez's fascinating study. Through her close readings, Gomez analyzes the vital function of mutual translations or transcreations among great poets and translators in Spanish, Portuguese, and English as a gift, or an act of literary reciprocity. --Suzanne Jill Levine, author of The Subversive Scribe: Translating Latin American Fiction

Cannibalism has been a provocative metaphor for translation, especially in Isabel C. Gomez's fascinating study. Through her close readings, Gomez analyzes the vital function of mutual translations or transcreations among great poets and translators in Spanish, Portuguese, and English as a gift, or an act of literary reciprocity. --Suzanne Jill Levine, author of The Subversive Scribe: Translating Latin American Fiction Gomez's hugely erudite, multidisciplinary study of translation in Latin America--which finds theoretical sources not only in translation studies, but also in anthropology, philosophy, Latin American Studies, and other fields--brilliantly decolonizes, decenters, contests, and undoes prevailing paradigms. Gomez pushes back on translation studies' Anglocentric tendencies by focusing primarily on translations between Spanish and Portuguese, and pushes boundaries in other directions, as well, not limiting her analyses to the printed word but including songs, graphic design, and even, in the final chapter (which redefines translation once again), digital media from Augusto de Campos's Instagram account. --Esther Allen, translator of Zama by Antonio Di Benedetto

Gomez's hugely erudite, multidisciplinary study of translation in Latin America--which finds theoretical sources not only in translation studies, but also in anthropology, philosophy, Latin American Studies, and other fields--brilliantly decolonizes, decenters, contests, and undoes prevailing paradigms. Gomez pushes back on translation studies' Anglocentric tendencies by focusing primarily on translations between Spanish and Portuguese, and pushes boundaries in other directions, as well, not limiting her analyses to the printed word but including songs, graphic design, and even, in the final chapter (which redefines translation once again), digital media from Augusto de Campos's Instagram account. --Esther Allen, translator of Zama by Antonio Di Benedetto Cannibalism has been a provocative metaphor for translation, especially in Isabel C. Gomez's fascinating study. Through her close readings, Gomez analyzes the vital function of mutual translations or transcreations among great poets and translators in Spanish, Portuguese, and English as a gift, or an act of literary reciprocity. --Suzanne Jill Levine, author of The Subversive Scribe: Translating Latin American Fiction

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Isabel C. Gómez is an associate professor in the Latin American and Iberian Studies Department at the University of Massachusetts Boston.

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