New Approaches to Translation, Conflict and Memory

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Emerging Trends in Reassessing Translation, Conflict, and Memory

      • Alicia Castillo Villanueva, Lucía Pintado Gutiérrez

      Pages 3-20

3. Langston Hughes: An Afro-American View of the Conflict

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 21-21

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   2. The Writer as Notional Translator: Langston Hughes and His Transcultural Racial Interpretation of the Spanish Civil War

      • Patricia San José

      Pages 23-43

   3. Empathy and Engagement in Translation: Langston Hughes’s Versions of Lorca’s Gypsy Ballads

      • Andrew Samuel Walsh

      Pages 45-63

4. Interpreters and the Spanish Conflict

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 65-65

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   2. Translating for the Legions of Babel: Spain 1936–1938

      • Marcos Rodríguez-Espinosa

      Pages 67-87

5. Translation and Censorship During Franco’s Dictatorship

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 89-89

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   2. Depicting Censorship Under Franco’s Dictatorship: Mary McCarthy, a Controversial Figure

      • Pilar Godayol

      Pages 91-111

   3. Censorship and the Translation of Children’s Literature: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in Franco’s Spain (1939–1975)

      • Julia Lin Thompson

      Pages 113-141

   4. Adventures of a Young Man vs. Las aventuras de un joven: John Dos Passos’s Fictional Enunciation of the Spanish Civil War in Franco’s Spain

      • Rosa María Bautista-Cordero

      Pages 143-160

6. Framing Translation and Memory of the Spanish Conflict

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 161-161

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   2. The Translation of Memory Through Television: El tiempo entre costuras and the Spanish Civil War

      • Kyra A. Kietrys

      Pages 163-184

   3. Voices, Whispers and Silence: Translating Defeat and Building Memories of the Spanish Civil War and Francoism

      • Inês Espada Vieira

      Pages 185-205

   4. Memory and Translation in La cabellera de la Shoá [The Hair of the Shoah] (2015) by Félix Grande

      • María Pilar Cáceres Casillas

      Pages 207-226

7. Back Matter

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This interdisciplinary edited collection establishes a new dialogue between translation, conflict and memory studies focusing on fictional texts, reports from war zones and audiovisual representations of the Spanish Civil War and the Franco Dictatorship. It explores the significant role of translation in transmitting a recent past that continues to resonate within current debates on how to memorialize this inconclusive historical episode. The volume combines a detailed analysis of well-known authors such as Langston Hughes and John Dos Passos, with an investigation into the challenges found in translating novels such as The Group by Mary McCarthy (considered a threat to the policies established by the dictatorial regime), and includes more recent works such as El tiempo entre costuras by María Dueñas. Further, it examines the reception of the translations and whether the narratives cross over effectively in various contexts. In doing so it provides an analysis of the landscape of the Spanish conflict and dictatorship in translation that allows for an intergenerational and transcultural dialogue. It will appeal to students and scholars of translation, history, literature and cultural studies.

• Spanish Civil War
• Franco
• Dictatorship
• Censorship
• Hispanic Studies
• Intercultural Studies
• History of Spain
• transnational memory
• transcultural exchange
• Langston Hughes
• Propaganda
• Spanish culture
• conflict
• cultural translation
• ideology
• International Brigades
• children’s literature
• Trauma
• Derrida
• postmemory

“New Approaches to Translation, Conflict and Memory signals a refreshing contribution to scholarship taking place at the intersection between translation studies and Iberian studies in particular … . the volume paves the way for further insights into how translation participates in other sites of conflict and memory, in and beyond Iberia. May this be just one of many more works on this topic to follow.” (Gabriella Martin, Translation Studies, April 26, 2021)

• School of Applied Languages and Intercultural Studies, Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland

  Lucía Pintado Gutiérrez

• School of Applied Language and Intercultural Studies, Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland

  Alicia Castillo Villanueva

Lucía Pintado Gutiérrez is Assistant Professor at the School of Applied Language and Intercultural Studies at Dublin City University, Ireland.



Alicia Castillo Villanueva is Assistant Professor of Spanish at the School of Applied Language and Intercultural Studies at Dublin City University, Ireland.

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