{"product_id":"a-translational-turn-latinx-literature-into-the-mainstream-9780822965510","title":"A Translational Turn: Latinx Literature Into the Mainstream","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Marta E. Sánchez\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: University of Pittsburgh Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: American - Hispanic \u0026amp; Latino\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNo contemporary development underscores the transnational linkage between the United States and Spanish-language América today more than the wave of in-migration from Spanish-language countries during the 1980s and 1990s. This development, among others, has made clear what has always been true, that the United States is part of Spanish-language América. Translation and oral communication from Spanish to English have been constant phenomena since before the annexation of the Mexican Southwest in 1848. The expanding number of counter-national translations from English to Spanish of Latinx fictional narratives by mainstream presses between the 1990s and 2010 is an indication of significant change in the relationship. \u003ci\u003eA Translational Turn\u003c\/i\u003e explores both the historical reality of Spanish to English translation and the \"new\" counter-national English to Spanish translation of Latinx narratives. More than theorizing about translation, this book underscores long-standing contact, such as code-mixing and bi-multilingualism, between the two languages in U.S. language and culture. Although some political groups in this country persist in seeing and representing this country as having a single national tongue and community, the linguistic ecology of both major cities and the suburban periphery, here and in the global world, is bilingualism and multilingualism.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Atlantic Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46427432255639,"sku":"9780822965510","price":5154.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780822965510.webp?v=1769100689","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/a-translational-turn-latinx-literature-into-the-mainstream-9780822965510","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}