At the intersection of translation studies and Latin American literary studies The Translators Visibility examines contemporary novels by a cohort of writers including prominent figures such as Cristina Rivera Garza Csar Aira Mario Bellatin Valeria Luiselli and Luis Fernando Verissimo who foreground translation in their narratives. Drawing on Latin Americas long tradition of critical and creative engagement of translation these novels explicitly visibly use major tropes of translation theory such as gendered and spatialized metaphors for the practice and the concept of untranslatability to challenge the strictures of intellectual property and propriety while shifting asymmetries of discursive authority above all between the original as a privileged repository of meaning and translation as its hollow emulation. In this way The Translators Visibilityshow that translation not only serves to renew national literatures through an exchange of ideas and forms when rendered visible it can help us reimagine the terms according to which those exchanges take place.