Daniel Alarcón’s <i>Lost City Radio</i> and the work of translation

The subject of Alarcón’s English language novels is identified without difficulty in publicity materials as deeply Peruvian and yet the marketing also presents him a ‘World’ writer. I explore how naming where writing ‘from’ it going relates to place Latin American culture globally. Working with idea that literature should have ‘place’, examine politics (self)translation Alarcón reference period armed internal conflict Peru (1980–2000) argue an understanding process can contribute our what World Literature national literatures are from specifically perspective. In interplay between foreign domestic differs more familiar strategies codeswitching Latinx writing, both enables resists translation other parts world onto Peru/Latin America.