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INCOMPARABLE EMPIRES
Modernist Latitudes
MODERNIST LATITUDES
Jessica Berman and Paul Saint-Amour, Editors
Modernist Latitudes aims to capture the energy and ferment of modernist studies by continuing to open up the range of forms, locations, temporalities, and theoretical approaches encompassed by the field. The series celebrates the growing latitude (scope for freedom of action or thought) that this broadening affords scholars of modernism, whether they are investigating little-known works or revisiting canonical ones. Modernist Latitudes will pay particular attention to the texts and contexts of those latitudes (Africa, Latin America, Australia, Asia, Southern Europe, and even the rural United States) that have long been misrecognized as ancillary to the canonical modernisms of the global North.
Barry McCrea, In the Company of Strangers: Family and Narrative in Dickens, Conan Doyle, Joyce, and Proust, 2011
Jessica Berman, Modernist Commitments: Ethics, Politics, and Transnational Modernism, 2011
Jennifer Scappettone, Killing the Moonlight: Modernism in Venice, 2014
Nico Israel, Spirals: The Whirled Image in Twentieth-Century Literature and Art, 2015
Carrie Noland, Voices of Negritude in Modernist Print: Aesthetic Subjectivity, Diaspora, and the Lyric Regime, 2015
Susan Stanford Friedman, Planetary Modernisms: Provocations on Modernity Across Time, 2015
Steven S. Lee, The Ethnic Avant-Garde: Minority Cultures and World Revolutions, 2015
Thomas S. Davis, The Extinct Scene: Late Modernism and Everyday Life, 2016
Carrie J. Preston, Learning to Kneel: Noh, Modernism, and Journeys in Teaching, 2016
Incomparable Empires
MODERNISM AND THE TRANSLATION OF SPANISH AND AMERICAN LITERATURE
Gayle Rogers
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Names: Rogers, Gayle, 1978 author.
Title: Incomparable empires : modernism and the translation of Spanish and American literature / Gayle Rogers.
Description: New York : Columbia University Press, [2016] | Series: Modernist latitudes | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016010615 | ISBN 9780231178563 (cloth : alk. paper) | ISBN 9780231542982 (e-book)
Subjects: LCSH: Modernism (Literature)Spain. | Modernism (Literature)United States. | Spanish literatureTranslationsHistory and criticism. | American literatureTranslationsHistory and criticism. | Spanish literature20th centuryHistory and criticism. | American literature20th centuryHistory and criticism.
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I BEGAN THIS BOOK AS A JUNIOR FACULTY MEMBER AT THE University of Pittsburgh, and as I now thank various entities and colleagues across the university, I am overwhelmed by the amount of supportboth institutional and personalI have received in my time here. I am very grateful to the following: the Department of English; the Humanities Center, for a faculty fellowship and an endless series of engaging events; the Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences, for a Richard D. and Mary Jane Edwards Endowed Publication Fund Award, Faculty Research and Scholarship Program subventions, and a Summer Research Stipend; the University Center for International Studies, for a faculty fellowship; the Hewlett International Grant fund, the European Union Center of Excellence/European Studies Center, the Global Studies Center, and the Center for Latin American Studies, for funding my travel to archives and conferences; and the Provosts Year of the Humanities in the University initiative, for subvening conferences and colloquia that I helped organize. The staff of the English department and the Humanities Center deserve my ongoing thanks, as do the graduate and undergraduate students who shared crucially in the inquiries that motivated this book. A department of our size turns the act of singling out all of ones colleagues into a long list that appears impersonal. Ill therefore mention those who kindly read drafts and discussed this book at length with me and thank the rest as a whole: Don Bialostosky, Adam Lowenstein, Colin MacCabe, Neepa Majumdar, Ryan McDermott, Imani Owens, Shalini Puri, and Autumn Womack. Jonathan Arac has been both a reader and a collaborator of a decidedly singular nature.
Cowriting a book on modernism with Sean Latham while intermittently composing this one dramatically changed my approach to Incomparable Empires, and more important, his friendship provided continual energy for both projects. A number of generous and insightful friends read multiple parts of this book in manuscript, often through writing exchanges that enlivened and refreshed me at sorely needed moments: Magal Armillas-Tiseyra, Rebecca Beasley, Mara del Pilar Blanco, Harris Feinsod, Leah Flack, Benjy Kahan, Catherine Keyser, and Carrie Preston. Rebecca Walkowitz showed me what I still needed to wrestle with; I appreciate her suggestions here and in our many ongoing conversations across several years now. Christine Froula returned to Pound and to me in illuminating, rejuvenating ways. John Dos Passos Coggin, Vanessa Fernndez, Leslie Harkema, Mara Julia Rossi, and Kirsten Silva Gruesz helped me through both archives and translational questions alike. Jerome Branche, Neil Doshi, Josh Lund, and Dan Morgan were all rich and challenging interlocutors. Andrs Prez-Simn, Alejandro Mejas-Lpez, Melissa Dinverno, and Ignacio Infante staged a conversation in Cincinnati and beyond that gave this project momentum. The librarians at the Yale Collection of American Literatures Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library provided me great assistance, too. I have benefited from the kindness of a number of colleagues in and from Spain, who have answered my nave questions and helped me understand histories that I am still attempting to grasp fully: Domingo Rdenas de Moya, Javier Zamora Bonilla, Daro Villanueva, Juan Herrero Sens, Mara Jorquera, and Jos Luis Venegas. The Fundacin Ortega y Gasset-Gregorio Maran and the librarians at the Biblioteca Nacional de Espaa remain great fonts of support and archival access.
