New Book Announcement: “River in an Ocean: Essays on Translation”, edited by Nuzhat Abbas

river in an ocean: essays on translation, Nuzhat Abbas (ed) (trace press, June 2023)
river in an ocean: essays on translation, Nuzhat Abbas (ed) (trace press, June 2023)

What are the histories, constraints, and possibilities of language in relation to bodies, origins, land, colonialism, gender, war, displacement, desire, and migration? Moving across genres, memories, belongings, and borders, these luminous essays by poets, writers, and translators invite us to consider translation as a form of ethical and political love—one that requires attentive regard of an other—and a making and unmaking of self.

“Translation, here, is decolonial feminist work.”—from the Foreword by Françoise Vergès

 

River in an Ocean: Essays on Translation, edited by Nuzhat Abbas
trace press, June 2023