The Sea Needs No Ornament
Author: Loretta Collins Klobah
Publisher:
Published: 2020
Total Pages: 347
ISBN-13: 9781845234744
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Deuda Natal
Author: Mara Pastor
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Published: 2021-09-07
Total Pages: 225
ISBN-13: 0816544239
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDeuda Natal finds the beauty within vulnerability and the dignity amidst precariousness. As one of the most prominent voices in Puerto Rican poetry, Mara Pastor uses the poems in this new bilingual collection to highlight the way that fundamental forms of caring for life—and for language—can create a space of poetic decolonization. The poems in Deuda Natal propose new ways of understanding as they traverse a thematic landscape of women’s labor, the figure of the nomad and immigrant, and the return from economic exile to confront the catastrophic confluence of disaster and disaster capitalism. The poems in Deuda Natal reckon with the stark environmental degradation in Puerto Rico and the larger impacts of global climate change as they navigate our changing world through a feminist lens. Pastor’s work asserts a feminist objection to our society’s obsession with production and the accumulation of wealth, offering readers an opportunity for collective vulnerability within these pages. For this remarkable work, Pastor has found unique allies in María José Giménez and Anna Rosenwong, the translators of Deuda Natal. Winner of the 2020 Ambroggio Prize of the Academy of American Poets, this collection showcases masterfully crafted and translated poems that are politically urgent and emotionally striking.
The Routledge Handbook of Latin American Literary Translation
Author: Delfina Cabrera
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2023-03-24
Total Pages: 626
ISBN-13: 1000836274
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Routledge Handbook of Latin American Literary Translation offers an understanding of translation in Latin America both at a regional and transnational scale. Broad in scope, it is devoted primarily to thinking comprehensively and systematically about the intersection of literary translation and Latin American literature, with a curated selection of original essays that critically engage with translation theories and practices outside of hegemonic Anglo centers. In this introductory volume, through survey and case-study chapters, contributing authors cover literary and cultural translation in the region historically, geographically, and linguistically. From the nineteenth to the twenty-first century, the chapters focus on issues ranging from the role of translation in the construction of national identities to the challenges of translation in the current digital age. Areas of interest expand from the United States to the Southern Cone, including the Caribbean and Brazil, as well as the impact of Latin American literature internationally, and paying attention to translation from and to indigenous languages; Portuguese, English, French, German, Chinese, Spanglish, and more. The first of its kind in English, this Handbook will shed light on different translation approaches and invite a rethinking of intercultural and interlingual exchanges from Latin American viewpoints. This is key reading for all scholars, researchers, and students of literary translation studies, Latin American literature, and comparative literature.
Ricantations
Author: Loretta Collins Klobah
Publisher: Peepal Tree Press
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781845234232
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The Sea Needs No Ornament/ El Mar No Necesita Ornamento
Author: KLOBAH
Publisher: Peepal Tree Press
Published: 2020-06-18
Total Pages: 397
ISBN-13: 9781845234737
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThirty-three poets from the English and Spanish-speaking Caribbean offer poems in a variety of forms and styles - from free verse, formal, experimental, and exuberant to minimalist - employing a range of language registers, including borrowings from children's ring games to blues rhythms. They speak in equally varied voices: lyrical, ironic, incensed, carnivalesque, meditative, and transgressive. Poems range over all aspects of women's lives, from childhoods of joy or sorrow, relationships with men and women, motherhood, elder years, as part of collectivities or in solitude. Poems focus on the female body as a source of self-knowledge, pleasure, strength, blood, invasion, and sometimes abuse. As Caribbean women, these poets scrutinize their places in the region's history and geography, including the intergenerational impact of migration; they celebrate or cast a critical eye over its spiritual traditions; decry the inequalities of class, race, gender, and sexuality; observe the region's abundance of flora, fauna and supernatural beings; and lament the catastrophic natural forces of earthquake, flood and hurricane that have battered its peoples, who yet search for new ways to revive and move forward. As Ilya Kaminsky writes: "This book gives us some of the most passionate and insightful writing around, in any language... as I look at the translated voices here I am both moved and transformed by the ways they seem to address the devastation of the present moment... Spanish-speaking poets are presented with wonderful English-language poets. The result is a first-rate conversation between poetics, a marvel."
Caribbean Literature in Transition, 1970-2020: Volume 3
Author: Ronald Cummings
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2021-02-28
Total Pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9781108474009
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe period from the 1970s to the present day has produced an extraordinarily rich and diverse body of Caribbean writing that has been widely acclaimed. Caribbean Literature in Transition, 1970-2020 traces the region's contemporary writings across the established genres of prose, poetry, fiction and drama into emerging areas of creative non-fiction, memoir and speculative fiction with a particular attention on challenging the narrow canon of Anglophone male writers. It maps shifts and continuities between late twentieth century and early twenty-first century Caribbean literature in terms of innovations in literary form and style, the changing role and place of the writer, and shifts in our understandings of what constitutes the political terrain of the literary and its sites of struggle. Whilst reaching across language divides and multiple diasporas, it shows how contemporary Caribbean Literature has focused its attentions on social complexity and ongoing marginalizations in its continued preoccupations with identity, belonging and freedoms.
Who Is Mary Sue?
Author: Sophie Collins
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 2018-02-06
Total Pages: 99
ISBN-13: 0571346626
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the language of fan fiction, a 'Mary Sue' is an idealised and implausibly flawless character: a female archetype that can infuriate audiences for its perceived narcissism.Such is the setting for this brilliant and important debut by Sophie Collins. In a series of verse and prose collages, Who Is Mary Sue? exposes the presumptive politics behind writing and readership: the idea that men invent while women reflect; that a man writes of the world outside while a woman will turn to the interior.Part poetry and part reportage, at once playful and sincere, these fictive-factive miniatures deploy original writing and extant quotation in a mode of pure invention. In so doing, they lift up and lay down a revealing sequence of masks and mirrors that disturb the reflection of authority.A work of captivation and correction, this is a book that will resonate with anyone concerned with identity, shame, gender, trauma, composition and culture: everyone, in other words, who wishes to live openly and think fearlessly in the modern world. Who Is Mary Sue? is a work for our times and a question for our age: it is a handbook for all those willing to reimagine prescriptive notions of identity and selfhood.
Infidelities
Author: Sonia Farmer
Publisher:
Published: 2017-05-15
Total Pages: 70
ISBN-13: 9780998915005
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA poetry collection examining the mythology of the female pirate Anne Bonney and contemporary feminist Caribbean identities
The Best Estimation in the World
Author: Sonia Farmer
Publisher:
Published: 2019-10
Total Pages: 134
ISBN-13: 9780998915029
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection of poetry, portrayed as eighteen interviews with employees at a resort development, examine the effect of the tourism industry on Bahamian identity. Created with text extracted from interviews run through a voice recognition software, the resulting distorted and fragmented language used to talk about building a resort development in The Bahamas felt closer to lived reality than any accurate transcription. This is a work of satire. Names, characters, businesses, places, events, locales, and incidents are either the products of the author's imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.
No Ruined Stone
Author: Shara McCallum
Publisher: Alice James Books
Published: 2021-08-10
Total Pages: 89
ISBN-13: 194857943X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNo Ruined Stone is a verse sequence rooted in the life of 18th-century Scottish poet Robert Burns. In 1786, Burns arranged to migrate to Jamaica to work on a slave plantation, a plan he ultimately abandoned. Voiced by a fictive Burns and his fictional granddaughter, a "mulatta" passing for white, the book asks: what would have happened had he gone?
