“Call it my revenge on English”: “Negocios” by Junot Díaz and Its Dissonant Translations

Code-switching or, as he calls it, “linguistic simultaneity” characterizes the prose of Junot Díaz. A fundamental trait of his literary project is the insertion of words and phrases in Spanish into texts written mainly in English, without highlighting them or providing translations for readers who d...

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Main Author: Karen Lorraine Cresci
Format: Article
Language:Spanish
Published: Universidad Nacional de Colombia 2017-07-01
Series:Literatura: Teoría, Historia, Crítica
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Online Access:https://revistas.unal.edu.co/index.php/lthc/article/view/63465