Giving Voice to the Multifarious Immigrant Experience: Gender Inequality and U.S. Immigrant Multilingualism in Norte by Edmundo Paz Soldán and its English Translation by Valerie Miles

Abstract

In this paper, I examine the polyphonic novel Norte (2011) written in Spanish by Edmundo Paz Soldán and the English translation by Valerie Miles in order to gain an understanding of the ways in which the writers demonstrate and critique social and political issues of relevance in the United States. I consider how the writers treat matters related to extreme violence and gender inequality while they convey realities of vastly different experiences of Latin American immigrants in the United States.