{"id":26620,"date":"2025-04-30T11:57:37","date_gmt":"2025-04-30T15:57:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/?p=26620"},"modified":"2025-05-08T10:50:21","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T14:50:21","slug":"lopez-publishes-essay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/2025\/04\/30\/lopez-publishes-essay\/","title":{"rendered":"Lopez Publishes Essay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/profile\/pedro-alejandro-lopez\/\">Alejandro Lopez<\/a>, one of our Spanish PhD students, has published an essay with the Observatorio del Instituto Cervantes at Harvard. The essay is titled, &#8220;Literary Shifts. The Obscene Bird Sings Again:\u00a0 Tale of a Tortured Translation.&#8221; From the abstract:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;This essay examines the translation history of Jos\u00e9 Donoso\u2019s\u00a0The Obscene Bird of Night\u00a0and its impact on the novel\u2019s reception in the English-speaking world. Spanning four decades, the translation saga involves significant omissions and alterations by Hardie St. Martin and Leonard Mades, which compromised the text\u2019s structural and thematic integrity. The essay juxtaposes the flawed original translation with Megan McDowell\u2019s recent corrective effort, highlighting her success in restoring critical omissions without producing a full retranslation. Using Deleuze and Guattari\u2019s rhizomatic theory, the analysis positions Donoso\u2019s masterpiece as a text that defies hierarchical structures, embracing multiplicity, connection, and asignification. It further argues that translation, as an extension of the rhizome, should preserve these qualities.&#8221;\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Links to essay:\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/cervantesobservatorio.fas.harvard.edu\/es\/informes\/traslaciones-literarias-el-obsceno-pajaro-vuelve-cantar-una-traduccion-torturada\">Spanish<\/a> \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/cervantesobservatorio.fas.harvard.edu\/en\/reports\/literary-shifts-obscene-bird-sings-again-tale-tortured-translation\">English<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alejandro Lopez, one of our Spanish PhD students, has published an essay with the Observatorio del Instituto Cervantes at Harvard. The essay is titled, &#8220;Literary Shifts. The Obscene Bird Sings Again:\u00a0 Tale of a Tortured Translation.&#8221; From the abstract: &#8220;This essay examines the translation history of Jos\u00e9 Donoso\u2019s\u00a0The Obscene Bird of Night\u00a0and its impact on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1714,"featured_media":24323,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16403],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26620"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1714"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26620"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26663,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26620\/revisions\/26663"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}