La poesia posmoderna de Rae Armantrout: Problemas traductológicos en Versed

Abstract

The poetry of Rae Armantrout, postmodern American writer, is characterized by its heteroglossia and its exploration of words and their meanings. Reproducing Armantrout’s formal and semantic effects in the translated versions of her poetry into Spanish is, undoubtedly, a complex task that requires multiple rewritings and creative strategies. Every translation implies a reintegration in the importing culture that needs changes or “shifts” of different kinds: obligatory – those that have to do with the different structures the original and the receiving languages present – and non-obligatory – those introduced by the translator, unrelated to the differences between languages. In addition, every rewriting, if we understand the translation process as a creative process that derives from the dialogic interplay between texts, implies an experiment of omission and emphasis that must consider the phono-morphological, syntactic, semantic, and metrical dimensions. This study analyzes these translation issues in the rewriting in Spanish of Versed (2009), Armantrout’s anthology recognized with the Pulitzer Prize of Poetry in 2010, with the objective of considering the changes and adaptations that take place in the translated versions of this poet’s work.