Cambridge Hispanic and Lusophone Research Seminar Series 2020-21

Professor Peter Hulme

Title: ‘The Spanish-American Number: Travel, Translation, and the Literary  History of Modernism’

Date: Wednesday, 12 May 2021

Time: 5pm

Venue: Zoom

Link to register:

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAld-6urDkqG9GHpRLnJ6zsGd3O3auJvm_b

Abstract:

How can Spanish-American modernismo best be related to Anglo-American modernism?  This paper approaches that question by looking closely at one moment when their paths crossed—a 1916 special number of one of the leading US modernist journals that offered to introduce modernismo to an English-speaking readership.  Which poets got translated?  Who chose them?  Who translated them?  Why have a Spanish-American number in the first place?  These are the kinds of question the paper will address.