The Translation of Aesop’s Fables in Colonial Mexico

Victoria Rios Castano

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    Abstract

    The translation of Aesop’s fables from Latin into classical Nahuatl has hardly drawn critical attention since the Mexican scholar Angel María Garibay Kintana denied them of any interest in his seminal Historia de la literatura náhuatl (1953-1954), with Gordon Brotherston and Günter Vollmer’s 1987 edition containing the only two studies available to curious readers and experts on colonial America.1 Their hypothesis and conclusions stand as follows. The forty-seven fables that have survived are a reminder of many other hand-written copies that must have circulated among a wide audience of indigenous speakers.2 For the date of composition of the fables, Garibay Kintana suggested the second half of the sixteenth century and, possibly because of the other doctrinal works that were found accompanying the manuscripts, he pointed at the Franciscan missionary Fray Bernardino de Sahagún as the likely translator (Vollmer, 1987: 222-223).3
    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)243-262
    Number of pages20
    JournalTrans: Revista de Traductología
    Volume19
    Issue number2
    Publication statusPublished - 2015

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    Keywords

    • Aesop
    • Nahua translators
    • College of Tlatelolco
    • Evangelization

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