Table of Contents

Prologue: The City and the Translator by Suzanne Jill Levine
Introduction: Translation and the City by Regina Galasso and Evelyn Scaramella
1          Un Walker en Nuyol: Coming to Terms with a Babel of Words by Ilan Stavans
2          Translation as a Native Language: The Layered Languages of Tango by Alicia Borinsky
3          Lorca, From Country to City: Three Versions of Poet in New York by Christopher Maurer
4          “Here Is My Monument”: Translation, Urban Space, and MartÍn Luis GuzmÁn’s Memorias de Pancho Villa by Nicholas Cifuentes Goodbody
5          On Languages and Cities: Rethinking the Politics of Calvert Casey’s “El regreso” by Charles Hatfield
6          A Palimpsestuous Adaptation: Translating Barcelona in Benet i Jornet's La plaÇa del Diamant by Jennifer Duprey
7          Montreal's New LatinitÉ: Spanish-French Connections in a Trilingual City by Hugh Hazelton
8          Translating the Local: New York’s Micro-Cosmopolitan Media, from JosÉ MartÍ to the Hyperlocal Hub by Esther Allen
9          “litORAL translation    TRADUCCIÓN LIToral” by UrayoÁn Noel
10        Coda: The City of the Translator’s Mind by Peter Bush
Acknowledgments
Bibliography
Notes on Contributors
Index

About the Author

Regina Galasso is an assistant professor and director of the Translation Center at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She is the author of Translating New York: The City’s Languages in Iberian Literatures (2018), recipient of the 2017 NeMLA Book Award, and translator of Alicia Borinsky’s Lost Cities Go to Paradise (2015).

Evelyn Scaramella is an assistant professor of Spanish at Manhattan College. She is working on a book manuscript about translation and literary collaborations between Hispanophone and Anglophone avant-garde writers during the Spanish Civil War. Her scholarly writing has appeared in Translation Review, The Massachusetts Review, and Revista Canadiense de Estudios HispÁnicos, among other journals.