Translating Borrowed Tongues: The Verbal Quest of Ilan Stavans

This book sheds light on the translations of renowned semiotician, essayist, and author Ilan Stavans, elucidating the ways in which they exemplify the migrant experience and translation as the interactions of living and writing in intercultural and interlinguistic spaces.

MaCarmen África Vidal Claramonte is Full Professor of Translation at the University of Salamanca, Spain. Her research interests include translation theory, migration studies, post-structuralism, post-colonialism, contemporary art, and gender studies. She has published 17 books, 12 edited volumes, and over 100 articles and book chapters on these issues. She is a practising translator specialized in the fields of philosophy, literature, history, and contemporary art.