Mattea Cussel is Research Fellow at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. She is author of 'When Solidarity Is Possible Yet Fails', in Translation Studies (2023), and the book chapters 'Transnational and Global Approaches in Translation Studies' in The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Globalization (2020) and 'Linguistic and Narrative Hospitality in the Translation of Daisy Hernández's "Before Love, Memory" ', in (In)Hospitable Encounters in Chicanx and Latinx Literature, Culture, and Thought (2025). She is currently coediting the second edition of The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Politics (with Jonathan Evans and Fruela Fernández).

Contents

Introduction

Situating a special case of translation

An integrated translation critique

Translation, migration and identity

Position of researcher

Explanation of terms

Overview

Part 1

Translations and texts

Chapter 1. Theories of migration literature and translation

Chapter 2. Literature and migrant points of view

Chapter 3. Latinx transformations and movements

Part 2

Translations and readers

Chapter 4. Interdisciplinary approaches to translation and reception

Chapter 5. A reader study of Latinx translations

Chapter 6. The reading culture of empathy

Conclusion