‘I may say wetback but I really mean mojado’: migration and translation in Ramón ‘Tianguis’ Pérez's Diary of an Undocumented Immigrant.
Strict divisions in the Mexican and United States nation-state model emphasize the dividing functions rather than connecting purposes of their borders. Similarly, discursive boundaries in mainstream thinking, doing, and reception of translation also conceal continuities between an original and its t...
| Publicado en: | Perspectives: Studies in Translatology Vol. 22; no. 2; pp. 161 - 179 |
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2014
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