{"id":443182,"date":"2023-08-28T16:42:17","date_gmt":"2023-08-28T20:42:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/?p=443182"},"modified":"2023-08-28T16:42:17","modified_gmt":"2023-08-28T20:42:17","slug":"revisiting-the-summer-of-spanish-language-women-writers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2023\/08\/28\/revisiting-the-summer-of-spanish-language-women-writers\/","title":{"rendered":"Revisiting the “Summer of Spanish-Language Women Writers”"},"content":{"rendered":"

As part of Women in Translation Month\u2014and to shine a spotlight on some of our best Two Month Review seasons\u2014I thought I would repost information about a few relevant TMR seasons that might be of interest.<\/p>\n

Today, we’re going to revisit a wild TMR season in which we featured three books originally written in Spanish, all published right around the start of the pandemic . . . Below, you’ll find info and links to all the episodes on\u00a0Cars on Fire\u00a0<\/em>by M\u00f3nica Ram\u00f3n R\u00edos & Robin Myers, Four by Four\u00a0<\/em>by Sara Mesa & Katie Whittemore, and The Book of Anna\u00a0<\/em>by Carmen Boullosa & Samantha Schnee.<\/p>\n

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We started this season off with Cars on Fire <\/em>by M\u00f3nica Ram\u00f3n R\u00edos & Robin Myers<\/a>. Here’s the jacket copy:<\/p>\n

\"\"\u201cWhen you live in an adopted country, when you\u2019re an exile in your own body, names are simply lists that dull the reality of death.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Cars on Fire<\/em>, M\u00f3nica Ram\u00f3n R\u00edos\u2019s electric, uncompromising English-language debut, unfolds through a series of characters\u2014the writer, the patient, the immigrant, the professor, the student\u2014whose identities are messy and ever-shifting. A speechwriter is employed writing for would-be dictators, but plays in a rock band as a means of protest. A failed Marxist cuts off her own head as a final poetic act. With incredible formal range, from the linear to the more free-wheeling, the real to the fantastical to the dystopic,\u00a0R\u00edos\u00a0offers striking, jarring glimpses into life as a woman and an immigrant. Set in New York City, New Jersey, and Chile\u2019s La Zona Central, the stories in\u00a0Cars on Fire<\/em>\u00a0offer powerful remembrances to those lost to violence, and ultimately make the case for the power of art, love, and feminine desire to subvert the oppressive forces\u2014xenophobia, neoliberalism, social hierarchies within the academic world\u2014that shape life in Chile and the United States.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And here are links to each Cars on Fire <\/em>episode:<\/p>\n

Episode 1<\/a>: Pages 1-63 (YouTube<\/a>, Apple Podcasts<\/a>, Spotify<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Episode 2<\/a>: Pages 64-151 (YouTube<\/a>, Apple Podcasts<\/a>, Spotify<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Episode 3<\/a>: Pages 152-End (YouTube<\/a>, Apple Podcasts<\/a>, Spotify<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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Then we moved on to\u00a0Four by Four\u00a0<\/em>by Sara Mesa & Katie Whittemore<\/a>. Here’s the jacket copy:<\/p>\n

\"\"Set entirely at Wybrany College\u2014a school where the wealthy keep their kids safe from the chaos erupting in the cities\u2014Four by Four<\/em>\u00a0is a novel of insinuation and gossip, in which the truth about Wybrany\u2019s \u201cprogram\u201d is always palpable, but never explicit. The mysteries populating the novel open with the disappearance of one of the \u201cspecial,\u201d scholarship students. As the first part unfolds, it becomes clear that all is not well in Wybrany, and that something more sordid lurks beneath the surface.<\/p>\n

In the second part\u2014a self-indulgent, wry diary written by an imposter who has infiltrated the school as a substitute teacher\u2014the eerie sense of what\u2019s happening in this space removed from society, becomes more acute and potentially sinister.<\/p>\n

An exploration of the relationship between the powerful and powerless\u2014and the repetition of these patterns\u2014Mesa\u2019s “sophisticated nightmare” calls to mind great works of gothic literature (think Shirley Jackson) and social thrillers to create a unique, unsettling view of freedom and how a fear of the outside world can create monsters.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And here are links to each Four by Four <\/em>episode:<\/p>\n

Episode 4<\/a>: Pages 1-86 (YouTube<\/a>, Apple Podcasts<\/a>, Spotify<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Episode 5<\/a>: Pages 87-156 (YouTube<\/a>, Apple Podcasts<\/a>, Spotify<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Episode 6<\/a>: Pages 156-222 (YouTube<\/a>, Apple Podcasts<\/a>, Spotify<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Episode 7<\/a>: Pages 223-End (YouTube<\/a>, Apple Podcasts<\/a>, Spotify<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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And we wrapped things up with\u00a0The Book of Anna\u00a0<\/em>by Carmen Boullosa & Samantha Schnee<\/a>. Here’s the jacket copy:<\/p>\n

\"\"IN THIS CONTINUATION OF ANNA KARENINA\u2019S LEGACY, RUSSIA SIMMERS ON THE BRINK OF CHANGE AND THE STORIES THAT HAVE LONG BEEN KEPT SECRET FINALLY COME TO LIGHT.<\/p>\n

Saint Petersburg, 1905. Behind the gates of the Karenin Palace, Sergei, son of Anna Karenina, meets Tolstoy in his dreams and finds reminders of his mother everywhere: the vivid portrait that the tsar intends to acquire and the opium-infused manuscripts Anna wrote just before her death, which open a trapdoor to a wild feminist fairy tale. Across the city, Clementine, an anarchist seamstress, and Father Gapon, the charismatic leader of the proletariat, plan protests that embroil the downstairs members of the Karenin household in their plots and tip the country ever closer to revolution. Boullosa tells a polyphonic and subversive tale of the Russian revolution through the lens of Tolstoy\u2019s most beloved work.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Episode 8<\/a>: Pages 1-73 (YouTube<\/a>, Apple Podcasts<\/a>, Spotify<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Episode 9<\/a>: Pages 74-98 (YouTube<\/a>, Apple Podcasts<\/a>, Spotify<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Episode 10<\/a>: Pages 99-126 (YouTube<\/a>, Apple Podcasts<\/a>, Spotify<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Episode 11<\/a>: Pages 127-161 (YouTube<\/a>, Apple Podcasts<\/a>, Spotify<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Episode 12<\/a>: Pages 162-End (YouTube<\/a>, Apple Podcasts<\/a>, Spotify<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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Enjoy!<\/p>\n

And while you’re here, you should get a copy of\u00a0Mulligan Stew\u00a0<\/em>by Gilbert Sorrentino<\/strong><\/a> and be ready for Season Twenty of TMR starting on September 6th!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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