In this second part of her two-part essay on the "virtual dramaturgy" of translating for theater, Jody Enders offers a taxonomy for deciphering the visual and auditory meaning of a dramatic text.
Jody Enders introduces us to the shocking and hilarious world of Medieval French farces and to the difficulties of translating them for the stage.
Lara Vergnaud contemplates the ifs and whens of preserving cultural markers with examples drawn from her recent translations of Joy Sorman, Yamen Manai, and Mohamed Mbougar Sarr.
Matt Reeck reviews the first two volumes of Kayali, a new series of Antillean translations from Nathanaël and Quattro Books.
Nathan Dize probes Conor Bracken’s recent translation of Haitian poet Jean D’Amérique, from the challenges of reproducing sonic clusters to the concept of poetry—and possibly translation itself—as witness.
Translations with no originals and originals from unwritten source texts: Guy Bennett reflects on the symbiosis of writing and translating in his more than thirty years of work.
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