The nobodies’ translations of history: the case of The Children of Sánchez
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https://doi.org/10.24310/TRANS.2019.v0i23.5219Keywords:
translation, history, subalterns, Oscar LewisAbstract
Los hijos de Sánchez is an example of a novel constructed by (hi)stories narrated orally by those who did not previously have a voice, and now translate Mexico’s official history. Theirs are intralinguistic and interlinguistic rewritings exemplifying what Bastin (2006: 121) calls “oraliture”. This article will show that Lewis’ particular way of translating history takes as his starting point the concepts of American and French critical historiography. Lewis’ “translators” offer rewritings, histories from below, microhistories. This opens new venues to overcome the traditional Eurocentrism and universalism which offered us only the vision of the conquerors.
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