‘Blackness’ in Trans(Re)lation

Professor Glover will reflect on the specific stakes of translating works by “Black" francophone authors into the Anglosphere. Thinking with a constellation of francophone and anglophone intellectuals and creative actors – from Haitian writers Frankétienne and René Depestre, to “Black” French thinkers Maboula Soumahoro and Edouard Glissant, and Black American theorists Brent Hayes Edwards and John Keene – she proposes the notion of trans(Re)lation as a usefully provocative point of departure for sharing language and culture across the various borders of our persistently racialized world.

Hosted by Exchanges: Journal of Literary Translation.

Supported by UI International Programs, the Stanley-UI Foundation Support Organization, UI Department of French & Italian, and the UI Graduate & Professional Student Government.