Gentzler, Edwin. Translation, hypertext, and creativity: Contemporary translation theories. Bristol: Multilingual Matters, 2001. 232 p.

Abstract

Contemporary translation theories (Gentzler, 2001) provides readers with a thorough historical analysis of how the notion of creativity and autonomy in what regards reading has been transformed-as well as regarding its influence towards the idea of translation. Endorsing Gentzler's (p.186) view that "in contrast to scholars who have attempted to dismiss deconstruction, its incorporation into models for translation in Latin American and other developing cultures merits serious attention by translation studies", I set off from deconstructivism as a fruitful space for repositioning the literary discourse. Deconstruction seems applicable to my view on translation inasmuch as it moves beyond any attempt to fit the process of translating within a fixed set of rules, as it advocates for one's raising awareness in what regards meanings that circumscribe the structure of any (hyper)textual activity. The place occupied by the translator is a place between spaces; a fluid locale where any concreteness has melted. As it is true for interpretation, "however the translation turns out, other translations are always possible, not better or worse, but different, depending upon the poetics of the translator, the initial choices and the points when the languages interlock" (p.101). Within such