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Translation in Theory and Imagination: Emily Apter and Katie Kitamura

Translation in Theory and Imagination with Emily Apter and Katie Kitamura

In this installment of the Creative Writing and Critical Thought series, novelist Katie Kitamura, author of Intimacies (Riverhead, 2021), speaks with professor Emily Apter, author of Against World Literature: On the Politics of Untranslatability (Verso Books, 2013), about the complexity and consequences of translation and the paradoxes and power of language. The series is cosponsored by New Literary History and the Center for Fiction.

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Katie Kitamura
Emily Apter
Center for Fiction
New Literary History
Creative Writing and Critical Thought series
2022

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