Anuario de Letras Modernas

10-20

Authors: Gabriela Villanueva-Noriega

This paper introduces the works of Daniel Defoe and Eliza Haywood in a com-parative manner while it examines each author’s role in the development of the English Novel during the eighteenth century and its legacy. To establish a point of contact between these two very different narrative styles, the paper focuses on the connection between body, writing, and control, and the dissimilar ways in which both authors convey bodily experience by means of narrative.

38-47

Authors: Bárbara Pérez Curiel

This paper examines the contribution of Eliza Haywood’s first work of amatory fiction, "Love in Excess; or the Fatal Enquiry", to the tradition of women’s critical writing that have questioned the hidden exclusions at the core of the European Enlightenment. "Love in Excess" addresses the dichotomy of reason versus emotion and the paradoxical expectations it imposed upon upper-class women during the European Enlightenment. Haywood’s exploration challenges this binary construction by showing the mutual interdependence of reason and passion, and by exposing the double standards on the basis of which women’s and men’s desires were regulated.

70-89

Authors: Julia Constantino Reyes

Since the 1970s translation theories have benefitted from their contact with social movements and theoretical and critical views from other disciplines. Such is the case of their links with different lines of feminist thought, gender studies, and queer theory, as well as feminist and LGBTIQ+ movements. Those links have reinvigorated the role and scope of translation in different social scenarios, and have supported self-reflection, the rise of other theoretical and critical ways of explaining the translation phenomenon in general, and its concrete outcomes. This article, as the beginning of a theoretical exploration, offers some views on translation as seen from performativity, particularly from repetition and difference—performativity taken as rising from speech acts and used in feminist and queer discussions that have provided them with immediate social, political, and theoretical meanings and uses as regards gender construction. Two elements are added to performativity—the body and emotions, which, taken from Douglas Robinson and Sara Ahmed’s work, turn out to be complementary just as they are crucial to approach gender and trans-lation. Putting these elements together points at the possibility of a more flexible theoretical view of translation, and the recognition of the active role of the reader and, more importantly, of the translator as agents in a performative process that can have an impact on social and cultural transformations. Likewise combining those terms and mechanisms allows for the resignification of traductological jargon and of concepts that define translation itself as a discipline and an activity, something that can lead to its redefinition as a field of knowledge, study, and practice.

96-99

Authors: Anaclara Castro Santana

Reseña de Rodríguez Álvarez, Argentina. (2017). The Links in the Chain: imágenes de la mujer en la literatura del siglo XVIII en Inglaterra. Ciudad de México: FFyL, UNAM.