JOSÉ EMILIO PACHECO AND RECIPROCITY BETWEEN LITERARY CULTURES: GIFT THEORY AS TRANSLATION STUDIES METHODOLOGY
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https://doi.org/10.1344/transfer.2019.14.73-99Keywords:
Literary translation, Reciprocity, Gift theory, José Emilio Pacheco, Mexican poetryAbstract
José Emilio Pacheco affirms that poetry is made by the collective,
anonymous effort of writers in every language, and his translation
practice returns debts he feels he owes other writers, including his
own translators. I use the theory of the gift developed by Marcel
Mauss as a methodology to interrogate the translation networks
Pacheco participated in and to highlight forms of translation that are
reciprocal rather than unidirectional.
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