Cloudburst: An Anthology of Hispanic Canadian Short Stories (Literary Translation) - Softcover

Julio Torres-Recinos

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0776608096 ISBN 13: 9780776608099

Publisher: University of Ottawa Press, 2014

Synopsis

Cloudburst is a milestone in Canadian literature. For over a half-century, beginning with the Spanish Civil War and continuing through the coups d'etat and military repression in South and Central America in the 1970s and 80s, Spanish-speaking writers have been arriving in Canada as exiles and immigrants and have been creating new works in their native language. Cloudburst is the first anthology of short stories by Hispanic Canadian writers from across Latin America and Spain to appear in English. Edited by Luis Molina Lora and Julio Torres-Recinos and first published in Spanish as Retrato de una nube in 2008, Cloudburst is a prodigious collective work, containing forty-two stories by twenty-two authors from nine different countries-Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico, Peru, and Spain-and rendered into English by seven translators. The stories in Cloudburst reflect the enormous variety of Hispanic writing in Canada today. Each of the authors' native countries has its own artistic and literary tradition, yet all are bound together by the Spanish linguistic and cultural sphere. Moreover, the women and men in the anthology have settled in cities and towns across Canada, some of them entering into contact with the English-speaking literary world, others with the French. A number of them began writing before they left their homelands, while many of the younger contributors started their careers in Canada. Some of them prefer a traditional literary style, others a more surrealist, experimental, or colloquial approach.

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About the Author

Born and raised in Colombia, Luis Molina Lora obtained a Ph.D. from the University of Ottawa, and is currently a Spanish language instructor. Julio Torres-Recinos is an associate professor of Spanish in the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultural Studies at the University of Saskatchewan. Hugh Hazelton is Professor Emeritus of Spanish, Concordia University, and Co-Director, Banff International Literary Translation Centre. He directed the translation of Cloudburst.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0776608096
• ISBN 13: 9780776608099
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 316
• Editor: Julio Torres-Recinos, Luis Molina Lora, Hugh Hazelton