Rediscovering Rubén Darío through Translation

A long overdue examination of Rubén Darío's multilingual work and influences alongside the contexts and politics of canonization in world literature.

Rediscovering Rubén Darío through Translation addresses the peculiar obscurity of Darío by asking these questions: How can one of the most important writers of a major world language be almost entirely unknown in the English-speaking world? How is it that other writers of the same language (e.g., Lorca or García Márquez) achieve widespread rec...