Can environmental justice receive translational justice? The case of Ana Castillo’s So Far from God and its Spanish rendition

Based on a comparative analysis of Ana Castillo’s So Far from God and Flavia Company’s Spanish translation of the novel, Tan lejos de Dios (1996), this article proposes the concept of ecotranslational justice as a new analytical framework that expands current intersections between Chicana feminism, environmental justice and Translation Studies building on existing ecotranslational models to note how environmental degradation is unevenly distributed along axes of gender, race, class and coloniality. The study demonstrates how translation becomes a site where environmental, cultural and gendered vulnerabilities are either reproduced or resisted. While we argue that Castillo’s novel constructs an eco‑Xicanista textual ecology – through code‑switching, women‑centred epistemologies, Indigenous environmental ethics and displacement of vulnerable populations – that foregrounds the entanglement of ecological devastation and patriarchal violence, we maintain that its translation reveals moments where these ecological and intersectional meanings are attenuated. By examining these translational decisions on different levels, we explore how ecotranslational justice can assess the degree to which a translation sustains or diminishes the ecological, cultural and feminist stakes of the source text. Ultimately, the study positions ecotranslational justice as a critical tool offering Feminist Translation Studies an outlook that integrates ecological sensitivity with intersectional awareness.