Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Prologue: The City and the Translator vii
4. Introduction: Translation and the City 1
5. 1. Un Walker en Nuyol: Coming to Terms with a Babel of Words 15
6. 2. Translation as a Native Language: The Layered Languages of Tango 23
7. 3. Lorca, From Country to City: Three Versions of Poet in New York 32
8. 4. “Here Is My Monument”: Martín Luis Guzmán and Pancho Villa in the Mexico City Landscape 52
9. 5. On Languages and Cities: Rethinking the Politics of Calvert Casey’s “El regreso” 69
10. 6. A Palimpsestuous Adaptation: Translating Barcelona in Benet i Jornet’s La Plaça del Diamant 81
11. 7. Montreal’s New Latinité: Spanish-French Connections in a Trilingual City 97
12. 8. Translating the Local: New York’s Micro-Cosmopolitan Media, from José Martí to the Hyperlocal Hub 112
13. 9. litoral translation / traducción litoral 133
14. 10. Coda: The City of a Translator’s Mind 142
15. Acknowledgments 145
16. Bibliography 147
17. Notes on Contributors 157
18. Index 161