Date of Award
2022
First Advisor
Mileta Roe
Second Advisor
Brendan Mathews
Third Advisor
Peter Filkins
Abstract
In an attempt to reconcile the identity of the translator with that of the original author, this thesis explores the complex relationship between a contemporary feminist translator and a brilliant, albeit misogynistic, short story author in two parts. Juan José Arreola was an eccentric figure of Mexican literature, achieving his publication heyday in the 1950–60s. His collection, Confabulario, never took off in the English-speaking world, so I hope to reintroduce him into our canon with Conspiracy, my original translation of ten of his stories and one introduction. The second half of the thesis, Confabulation, consists of four original short stories inspired by Arreola’s own. These stories tackle the treatment of women in Conspiracy with a process modeled after Angela Carter’s The Bloody Chamber.
Recommended Citation
Kelly, Elise, "Conspiracy and Confabulation: The Mask of the Translator" (2022). Senior Theses. 1588.
https://digitalcommons.bard.edu/sr-theses/1588
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