Bella Brodzki Professor of Comparative Literature, Sarah Lawrence Bella Brodzki is professor of Comparative Literature at Sarah Lawrence, where she teaches courses in world literature/global writing, translation studies, autobiography, and literary and cultural theory. She is the coeditor of Life/lines: Theorizing Women’s Autobiography; a special issue of Comparative Literature Studies on Narrative and Trauma, and author of Can These Bones Live?: Translation, Survival, and Cultural Memory. A special issue she is coediting of Translation on Memory and Translation in Language and Culture is forthcoming in 2016. Participant In: Translation Matters Saturday, November 21, 2015 2:30-4:30 pm Past Event Watch the video » Why is translation, which formerly referred to a set of restricted technical procedures taking place between two languages, now widely understood to be the basis of all human culture? What is it about this dynamic principle of displacement, exchange, and creative renewal that also links it to the exercise of political power and the possession… read more »
Translation Matters Saturday, November 21, 2015 2:30-4:30 pm Past Event Watch the video » Why is translation, which formerly referred to a set of restricted technical procedures taking place between two languages, now widely understood to be the basis of all human culture? What is it about this dynamic principle of displacement, exchange, and creative renewal that also links it to the exercise of political power and the possession… read more »