Margaret Walker's Jubileo

  1. Sanz Jiménez, Miguel 1
  1. 1 Universidad Complutense de Madrid
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    Universidad Complutense de Madrid

    Madrid, España

    ROR 02p0gd045

Zeitschrift:
1611: revista de historia de la traducción = a journal of translation history = revista d'història de la traducció

ISSN: 1988-2963

Datum der Publikation: 2021

Nummer: 15

Art: Artikel

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Zusammenfassung

This paper aims to examine the Spanish translation of Margaret Walker’s Jubilee (1966), which was the first African American neo-slave narrative rendered into this target language, specifically, by Mercedes A. Carrera in 1968. An initial overview of the tradition of slave narratives helps understand the significance of Walker’s novel and its contribution to this literary genre. This study looks into the context in which the source text was published and then focuses on the circumstances surrounding its translation and release in Spain. By observing the book’s reception in the United States, the source and target paratexts, and the state censorship that conditioned Spanish publishers, this work delves into the portrayal of alterity in Walker’s text and how Carrera’s choices as a translator have influenced the depiction of Black slaves’ otherness in the target culture. Particularly, it analyzes the Spanish translation of the semantic fields of skin color and the world of Southern plantations, the characters’ meaningful names, and the slaves’ literary dialect.

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