Abstract
Translation should be an essential part of the study of a work since it determines its reception in different contexts. In fact, if we consider translation from a wider view than the traditional one, the range of possibilities opens up to make us see that writing is also translating. After all, turning our thoughts into written words means translating them into a linguistic system. In this vein, literature is just another rewriting of (ir)reality (and the same happens with news, cinema, or art), inevitably influenced by the other thousands of rewritings that we receive every day. And, in the case of US Hispanic literature, writing and translating collide in the creative process, for the more or less veiled presence of Spanish shows the ongoing coming and going between languages that takes place in the mind and life of these US Hispanic writers.
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Ponz, M.L. (2013). (Too) Changing Landscapes: The Translation of US Hispanic Literature into Spanish. In: Martín-Junquera, I. (eds) Landscapes of Writing in Chicano Literature. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137353450_18
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