Richard Prins discusses his approach to translating the lyrics of contemporary Swahili hip-hop artists for his book «Brain Flavour», forthcoming this summer from Tenement Press.
On Swahili Hip-Hop and the Insufficiency of Translation
Strange Encounters and Needless Worries
Stine An and Yoo Heekyung indulge in a richly detailed conversation about An’s new translation of Heekyung’s poetry collection «Winter Night Rabbit Worries» for Ugly Duckling.
Wonders in Aliceland
Pierre Senges leaps down the rabbit-hole in this review of Philippe Jaworski’s new French translations of Lewis Carroll for Gallimard’s prestigious Bibliothèque de la Pléiade.
Interview with the editors of African Language Literatures in Translation
Erik Beranek discusses the new African Language Literatures in Translation series with series editor Alexander Fyfe and University of Georgia Press editor-in-chief Nate Holly.
“Not Sacrifice the Ease of the French” (Part II.c)
Vincent Kling concludes Part II of his essay on translational equivalence by scrutinizing Vladimir Nabokov’s notorious translation of Aleksander Pushkin’s novel «Eugene Onegin».
“Not Sacrifice the Ease of the French” (Part II.b)
In this middle section of his essay on Marianne Moore and Jean de La Fontaine, Vincent Kling assesses the principle of translational equivalence with a wide swath of examples.
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