Oppression is not a point of view
The right to equal opportunities for women Wednesday, May 27, 2015 By Mai Shams El-Din After the ouster of former President Hosni Mubarak, a group of feminist activists stood at the heart of Tahrir Square and made several demands concerning women’s rights and freedoms. They were met by insults and curses from passers-by and criticism from others, who maintained this was
» Read moreBULAN LAHIRI February 5, 2011, The Hindu Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, considered by many to be the one of the world’s leading ‘Marxist-feminist-deconstructionists’, talks about notions of identity, her evolution as an intellectual and her present-day concerns. Excerpts from an exclusive interview… As I wait for Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak in her brand new office at New York’s ivy-league Columbia University where
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Mona Baker is interviewed by Andrew Chesterman 2008. Cultus 1(1): 10-33. Click on the link below to download a copy of the interview. Baker Ethics of Renarration 2008 Chesterman: Your recent book Translation and Conflict. A Narrative Account (2006a) raises some interesting and important issues concerning the practice and ethics of translation and interpreting. You argue that translation is especially significant
» Read moreon 07 Novembre 2014. Interview with OMAR ROBERT HAMILTON (MOSIREEN COLLECTIVE) – by SARA MARCHESI and DUCCIO SCOTINI “We trust to each other’s strength. Or we did. And we were strong, undefeatable, once. Now, more than ever, we must find that strength, that trust. If you ever saw hope in this revolution, if you ever gave someone a cigarette on a
» Read morePublished on June 17, 2014 The PEN Ten is PEN America’s biweekly interview series curated by Lauren Cerand. This week Lauren talks to Lawrence Venuti, who translates from Italian, French, and Catalan. His translations include I.U.Tarchetti’s Gothic romance, Fosca, Antonia Pozzi’s Breath: Poems and Letters, Massimo Carlotto’s crime novel, The Goodbye Kiss, and Ernest Farrés’s Edward Hopper: Poems, which
» Read moreA decade after the Truth and Reconciliation Committee hearings, the interpreters speak their truth. Yvette Hardie interviews three interpreters, April 2006. Download pdf file of interviews: Invisible Angels.
» Read moreBy Karla Zabludovsky 24 August 2014 When Edith Grossman was translating a novel by Mexican writer Carlos Fuentes, she was struggling with how to handle the ubiquitous slang. One day, at lunch with Fuentes, Grossman asked him how he had picked up such a vast repertoire of dirty, vulgar and unheard-of slang. “He said, ‘Well, number one, when I was a
» Read moreInterview with Gisèle Sapiro (in French) par Lucie Campos , le 14 juillet Alors que les marchés éditoriaux s’internationalisent, la sociologie s’intéresse à la traduction des sciences humaines et sociales. Gisèle Sapiro montre les effets du croisement entre les champs académiques et éditoriaux sur les pratiques de traduction. Directrice du Centre européen de sociologie et de science politique, Gisèle Sapiro a dirigé les
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