| FT-57881-10 | Research Programs: Summer Stipends | Richard Kelly Washbourne | A Critical Translation of Miguel Angel Asturias's Leyendas de Guatemala | 5/1/2010 - 9/30/2010 | $6,000.00 | Richard | Kelly | Washbourne | | | | Kent State University | Kent | OH | 44242-0001 | USA | 2010 | Latin American Literature | Summer Stipends | Research Programs | 6000 | 0 | 6000 | 0 |
My proposal is to produce a first translation of 1967 Nobel laureate Miguel Angel Asturias's Leyendas de Guatemala (1930) [Legends of Guatemala], including a critical apparatus: an introduction that investigates the role of language and contextualizes the Mayan intertexts and worldview that permeate the work; a translator's introduction that details the translator's role, challenges, and decision-making; and a glossary of allusions. This work aims to fill a gap in the understanding and appreciation of the anthropological in twentieth-century Latin American fiction, while joining the important body of aesthetic works from the region imbued with a postcolonial consciousness and engaged in the project of nation-formation. |