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Poets & Writers interviews Puerto Rican writer Claudia Acevedo-Quiñones, author of the debut novel The Hurricane Book: A Lyric History. [Many thanks to Peter Jordens for bringing this item to our attention. Also see previous post New: The Hurricane Book.] Here are excerpts: This week’s installment of Ten Questions features Claudia Acevedo-Quiñones, whose debut, The Hurricane Book:…
7 Resources on Translating Blackness, Race, and Racism Five years ago, John Keene published “Translating Poetry, Translating Blackness,” a clarion call for more Afro-diasporic literature in English translation, noting the exclusion of Black writers from the already marginalized market of translated literature. Even greater than the dearth of Black literature in translation is the dearth of Black translators into English, not to mention the lack of writing about translating Blackness—evidenced by the fact that discussions of race and translation tend to reference Keene’s essay and not ...