RUTH MATILDA ANDERSON: EL OLVIDO DE UNA PIONERA DE LA TRADUCCIÓN Y DE LA PARATRADUCCIÓN DE LA LITERATURA GALLEGA
Ruth Matilda Anderson: Obscurity of a Pioneer of Galician Literature Translation and Paratranslation

Summary/Abstract: In the year 1939 Ruth Matilda Anderson published her first monography, Gallegan Provinces of Spain: Pontevedra and La Coruña, under the aegis of the cultural institution in which she was working as curator and photographer, The Hispanic Society of America (HSA) in New York. This volume compiled the greatest number of translations into English of texts by Rosalía de Castro in a single book up to that time. Furthermore, most of them were translated into another language for the first time. Only another scholar before her, Annette B.Meakin, had translated into that same tongue, in 1909, two poems by Rosalía. From a pragmatic approach and a feminist view, I analyse the causes that, according to the documents studied, might have motivated the marginalization imposed on Anderson and her book for more than eighty years. First, I establish a comparative study with other analogous and coetaneous works, also written by women, which ultimately were welcome in the Galician system. Among them, there is an anthology on Spanish poetry published by the very HSA itself, in 1938, to which Ruth Matilda contributed by translating a text by Rosalía de Castro. Second, I analyse how the image that both the paratranslations compiled in the 1939 book, as well as the direct description of the Galician author and the Galician women conducted by Anderson, antagonistic of that promoted by Galician canon, could have been the causes of the ostracism towards this work and its author.

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