Joshua M. Price
List of John Benjamins publications in which Joshua M. Price is involved.
2025 The anguish of the mestizo between Quechua and Spanish Translation in Society 4:2, pp. 259–263 | Translation
José María Arguedas (1911–1969) was a Peruvian novelist, anthropologist, and translator whose work bridges Indigenous and Western epistemologies. Written in 1939, “Entre el kechwa y el castellano, la angustia del mestizo” is an essential essay in Latin American thought on language, identity, and… read more
2025 Translating “The Anguish of the Mestizo” by José María Arguedas Translation in Society 4:2, pp. 248–258 | Translation
This short introduction to my translation (with Gabriela Veronelli and María Constanza Guzmán) of José María Arguedas’s “Entre el kechwa y el castellano, la angustia del mestizo” (1939), here titled “The Anguish of the Mestizo between Quechua and Spanish,” situates Arguedas’s essay within… read more
2008 Translating social science: Good versus bad utopianism Target 20:2, pp. 348–364 | Article
Dedicated to the memory of Daniel Simeoni
Insufficient attention has been paid in Translation Studies to the challenges particular to translating social scientific texts. Of the few who have taken up the topic, Immanuel Wallerstein has argued that one of the distinguishing characteristics of social… read more
Towards a defiant theory of translation: José María Arguedas Translation in Society: Online-First Articles | Article
Novelist and linguist José María Arguedas provides a framework for a theory and approach to translation that takes up Quechua cultural and linguistic defiance. Arguedas grew up with Quechua as the language that expressed the stirrings of his soul and Spanish as the language of domination.… read more

