RT Journal Article
T1 Multidirectional Memory, Polyacroasis and (Un)translatability in Antonio Muñoz Molina’s «Sefarad»
A1 Amezcua Gómez, David
AB ABSTRACT: The primary aim of this chapter is to analyse the alignment between multidirectional memory and literature. Michael Rothberg’s multidirectional memory model is scrutinized so as to elucidate how this approach works in fiction. The chapter further analyses the rhetorical concept of polyacroasis, proposed by Tomás Albaladejo in 1998 in order to analyse its interlacing with multidirectional memory as well as to demonstrate the manner in which polyacroasis may function as a vehicle of multidirectional memory in literature. On the other hand, the notion of translator as secondary witness (Deane-Cox, 2013; 2017) will be employed so as to examine the role of the author as translator. By means of a case study, Antonio Muñoz Molina’s Sefarad. Una novela de novelas, I will attempt to analyse how the frameworks provided by multidirectional memory and polyacroasis along with the workings of empathy encourage and pave the way to translatability. Similarly, I will examine how the notion of translator as secondary witness functions in a novel like Sefarad taking into account that the author of that novel inscribed his translation into Spanish of passages coming from Holocaust testimonies which were not published in Spain by the time the novel was being written.
PB De Gruyter
SN 1865-9039
YR 2021
FD 2021
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/110632
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/110632
LA eng
NO Amezcua, David. «Multidirectional Memory, Polyacroasis and (Un)Translatability in Antonio Muñoz Molina’s “Sefarad”». Iberoromania, vol. 2021, n.º 93, 2021, pp. 36-51, https://doi.org/10.1515/iber-2021-0004.
NO • All Rights Reserved.• This paper is a result of the TRANSLATIO research project (Reference PGC2018-093852-B-I00), funded by the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities of Spain.
NO Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (España)
DS Docta Complutense
RD 10 abr 2025