Poetry of Witness and Translation: Claribel Alegría and Carloyn Forché

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https://doi.org/10.15359/rl.2-73.2

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poetic translation, Carolyn Forché, Claribel Alegría, translation of witness

Abstract

American poet Carolyn Forché is also a human rights activist and a poetic translator. This article defines her poetics of translation as expressed in the Introduction to her anthology Against Forgetting. Twentieth-Century Poetry of Witness (1993), and her translation of Claribel Alegría’s Flowers from the Volcano (1982). The article presents the term “translation of witness” which has a social-political objective in Central America beyond literary transmission in the target language. The theoretical framework is based on Antoine Berman and Lawrence Venuti.

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Published

2022-12-29

How to Cite

Poetry of Witness and Translation: Claribel Alegría and Carloyn Forché. (2022). LETRAS, 73, 39-62. https://doi.org/10.15359/rl.2-73.2

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Literary Studies (Estudios literarios )

How to Cite

Poetry of Witness and Translation: Claribel Alegría and Carloyn Forché. (2022). LETRAS, 73, 39-62. https://doi.org/10.15359/rl.2-73.2

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