This is a Classic: Translators on Making Writers Global [Paperback]

This Is a Classicilluminates the overlooked networks that contribute to the making of literary classics through the voices of multiple translators, without whom writers would have a difficult time reaching a global audience. It presents the work of some of today's most accomplished literary translators who translate classics into English or who work closely with translation in the US context and magnifies translators' knowledge, skills, creativity, and relationships with the literary texts they translate, the authors whose works they translate, and the translations they make. The volume presents translators' expertise and insight on how classics get defined according to language pairs and contexts. It advocates for careful attention to the role of translation and translators in reading choices and practices, especially regarding literary classics.Regina Galassois Associate Professor Spanish and Portuguese Studies and Director of the Translation Center at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA. She is the author ofTranslating New York(2018) and editor, with Evelyn Scaramella, ofAvenues of Translation: The City in Iberian and Latin American Writing(2019).

Translation has always been about learning to understand others while finding out something vital about ourselves. Unlike other books in the field,This Is a Classicdoes not fall into the trap of neglecting one part of that equation to favor the other, and that is because it never loses sight of the fact that a literary classic  whatever else it is or does  teaches us to look at ourselves anew in consideration of others. -Juan Carlos Calvillo, Professor, Center for Literature and Linguistics, El Colegio de M?xico, Mexico City

This important collection aims to raise awareness of translation in mainstream academia but is equally valuable for the lay reader because, as Galasso points out in her introduction, 'the classics are tools for developing writerlÃä