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On Becoming Virginia: The Story of a Man Who Crashed a Woman's Body: A Translation of Alejandro Tapia y Rivera's Postumo el envirginiado [1882]

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dc.contributor.advisorEdwin C. Gentzler
dc.contributor.authorSuko, Aaron M. M.
dc.contributor.departmentUniversity of Massachusetts Amherst
dc.contributor.departmentComparative Literature
dc.date2023-09-22T20:07:25.000
dc.date.accessioned2024-04-26T21:05:28Z
dc.date.available2009-08-07T00:00:00Z
dc.date.issued2009-01-01
dc.date.submitted2009-September
dc.description.abstractThis thesis establishes a biographical and critical context pertaining to the life and work of the nineteenth-century Puerto Rican author Alejandro Tapia y Rivera (1826-1882), and presents a proposed translation of his final novel, Póstumo el envirginiado o la historia de un hombre que se coló en el cuerpo de una mujer (1882). In a discussion of Tapia’s life and work, I highlight important historical factors for comprehending the text’s and Tapia’s relatively obscure status. Then I turn to the text itself to analyze key themes and narrative techniques, referring to literary scholars of Póstumo in order to provide a general interpretive frame work for contemporary readers of the text in translation. Next, I address the functions and metaphors of translation in the novel, and how these relate to discussions in translation theory around the metaphorics of fidelity, gender, and cosmopolitanism, before finally presenting my translation of the novel itself.
dc.description.degreeMaster of Arts (M.A.)
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.7275/928827
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14394/46993
dc.relation.urlhttps://scholarworks.umass.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1416&context=theses&unstamped=1
dc.source.statuspublished
dc.subjectLatin American literature
dc.subjectPuerto Rico
dc.subjecttranslation
dc.subjectnineteenth-century literature
dc.subjectgender
dc.subjectmodernity
dc.subjectComparative Literature
dc.subjectLatin American Literature
dc.subjectOther Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
dc.subjectComparative literature
dc.titleOn Becoming Virginia: The Story of a Man Who Crashed a Woman's Body: A Translation of Alejandro Tapia y Rivera's Postumo el envirginiado [1882]
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