Sanz Jiménez, Miguel2024-02-012024-02-01202010.12795/REN.2020.I24.10https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/97856Funding agency: FPU Scholarship (FPU15/00891) granted by the Spanish Ministry of EducationThis paper studies how two recent neo-slave narratives have been translated into Spanish: The Good Lord Bird, by James McBride, and The Underground Railroad, by Colson Whitehead. Since they were both published simultaneously in Spain in September 2017, special attention is paid to the strategies used to render Black English, which marks slaves’ otherness, in the target polysystem. An overview of the origin, rise, and evolution of neo-slave narratives precedes the features of African-American Vernacular English portrayed in the novels that belong to this sub-genre. After some insights into the issue of translating literary dialect, the risks it entails, and the different strategies that can be used, the Spanish versions of McBride’s and Whitehead’s works are analyzed accordingly and contrasted.engAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internationalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/journal articlehttps://revistascientificas.us.es/index.php/ESTUDIOS_NORTEAMERICANOS/article/view/11543open accessAfrican American LiteratureBlack EnglishColson WhiteheadJames McBrideLiterary TranslationSlave NarrativesFilología inglesa5701.12 Traducción