Full Description
Translocalities/Translocalidades is a path-breaking collection of essays on Latin American, Caribbean, and United States-based Latina feminisms and their multiple translations and cross-pollinations. The contributors come from countries throughout the AmÉricas and are based in diverse disciplines, including media studies, literature, Chicana/o studies, and political science. Together, they advocate a hemispheric politics based on the knowledge that today, many sorts of Latin/o-americanidades-Afro, queer, indigenous, feminist, and so on-are constructed through processes of translocation. Latinidad in the South, North and Caribbean "middle" of the AmÉricas, is constituted out of the intersections of the intensified cross-border, transcultural, and translocal flows that characterize contemporary transmigration throughout the hemisphere, from La Paz to Buenos Aires to Chicago and back again. Rather than immigrating and assimilating, many people in the Latin/a AmÉricas increasingly move back and forth between localities, between historically situated and culturally specific, though increasingly porous, places, across multiple borders, and not just between nations. The contributors deem these multidirectional crossings and movements, and the positionalities engendered, translocalities/translocalidades.
Contributors. Sonia E. Alvarez, Kiran Asher, Victoria (Vicky) M. BaÑales, Marisa Belausteguigoitia Rius, Maylei Blackwell, Cruz C. Bueno, Pascha Bueno-Hansen, Mirangela Buggs, Teresa Carrillo, Claudia de Lima Costa, Isabel Espinal, VerÓnica Feliu, Macarena GÓmez-Barris, Rebecca J. Hester, Norma Klahn, AgustÍn Lao-Montes, Suzana Maia, MÁrgara MillÁn, Adriana Piscitelli, Ana Rebeca Prada, Ester R. Shapiro, Simone Pereira Schmidt, Millie Thayer
Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction to the Project and the Volume: Enacting a Translocal Feminist Politics of Translation / Sonia E. Alvarez 1
Introduction to the Debates about Translation: Lost (and Found?) in Translation: Feminisms in Hemispheric Dialogue / Claudia de Lima Costa 19
Part I. Mobilizations/Mobilizing Theories/Texts/Images
1. Locating Women's Writing and Translation in the Americas in the Age of Latinamericanismo and Globalization / Norma Klahn 39
2. Is AnzaldÚa Translatable in Bolivia? / Ana Rebeca Prada 57
3. Cravo Canela Bala e Favela: Luso-Afro-Brazilian Feminist Postcolonialities / Simone Pereira Schmidt 78
4. El Incansable Juego / The Untiring Game: Dominican Women Writing and Translating Ourselves / Isabel Espinal 95
5. Pedagogical Strategies for a Transnational Reading of Border Writers: Pairing a Triangle / Marisa Belaustaguigoita Rius 107
Part II. Mediations/National/Transnational Identities/Circuits
6. Feminist Theories, Transnational Translations, and Cultural Mediations / Claudia de Lima Costa 133
7. Politics of Translation in Contemporary Mexican Feminism / MÁrgara MillÁn 149
8. Bodies in Translation: Health Promotion in Indigenous Mexican Migrant Communities in California / Rebecca J. Hester 168
9. Texts in Contexts: Reading Afro-Colombian Women's Activism / Kiran Asher 189
10. El Fruto de la Voz: The "Difference" of MoyeneÍ ValdÉs's Sound Break Politics / Macarena GÓmez-Barris 209
Part III. Migrations/Disrupting (B)orders
11. Translation and Transnationalization of Domestic Service / Teresa Carrillo 225
12. Chilean Domestic Labor: A Feminist Silence / VerÓnica Feliu 240
13. Performing Seduction and National Identity: Brazilian Erotic Dancers in New York / Suzana Maia 258
14. Transnational Sex Travels: Negotiating Identities in a Brazilian "Tropical Paradise" / Adriana Piscitelli 277
Part IV. Movement/Feminist/Social/Political/Postcolonial
15. Translenguas: Mapping the Possibilities and Challenges of Transnational Women's Organizing across Geographies of Difference / Maylei Blackwell 299
16. Queer/Lesbiana Dialogues among Feminist Movements in the AmÉricas / Pascha Bueno-Hansen 321
17. Learning from Latinas: Translating Our Bodies, Ourselves as Transnational Feminist Text / Ester R. Shapiro 340
18. Women with Guns: Translating Gender in I, Rigoberta MenchÚ / Victoria M. BaÑales 363
19. Translocal Space of Afro-Latinidad: Critical Feminist Visions for Diasporic Bridge-Building / AgustÍn Lao-Montes and Mirangela Buggs 381
20. Translations and Refusals: Resignifying Meanings as Feminist Political Practice / Millie Thayer 401
References 423
Contributors 463
Index 469
