Follow along with our class, which is preparing for our colloquium on Napoleon Rivers, Black Studies & Translation as (Anti-Racist) Activism (March 2, 2021) by reading the following:

Hilda Hilst, trans. John Keene, excerpt from Letters from a Seducer: https://asterixjournal.com/tomfoolery/ (Links to an external site.)

John Keene, “Translating Poetry, Translating Blackness,” at https://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2016/04/translating-poetry-translating-blackness

Optional: John Keene, “Gloss on a History of Roman Catholics in the Early American Republic, 1790–1825; or the Strange History of Our Lady of the Sorrows,” from Counternarratives

You can purchase Counternarratives from its publisher New Directions here: https://www.ndbooks.com/book/counternarratives/