Ann Fisher- Wirth Translations by the 4W International Women Collective Translation Circle Photographs by Wilfried Raussert Note of the Author Sometimes the world seems turned upside down. So many beings, both human and other than human, long for freedom yet live in various kinds of cages. So many long for tenderness yet are pierced with …
Lori DiPrete Brown Book cover of Flores Raras: [escondido país] poesía de mujeres uruguayas, featuring a light gray upper section with the title and a bright red lower section with an illustration of tree roots, resting on a wood surface. Crossing borders has many forms –physical, psychological, spiritual, linguistic and more. Translation of poetry can …
Sarli E. Mercado & Lori DiPrete Brown The 4W Women in Translation circle (4W WIT) is an engaged research effort that explores the meaning and practice of collective translation, It is inspired by experiences of collaboration related to literature and the arts, gender and wellbeing, and also community, urban sustainability and the environment, in particular, …
Diego Alegría [original] cuando el cuerpo deja de sentir el cuerpo y la piel comienza a ser la superficie de la sábana y el ojo deja de distinguir la noche cuando no hay sonido pero algo se observa en el silencio cuando no hay mirada pero also se escucha en lo informe porque todo vuelve …
Mario Sanchez Gumiel Jorge Luis Borges’ story “Del rigor en la ciencia” narrates how the creation of the map of an empire becomes so exact and precise that the mapped landscape of that empire eventually usurps the role of the original landscape as the real landscape. At the end, the original landscape recovers its status …
Karina Ortiz Pacheco La narrativa de Gabriela Alemán está marcada por el eje de la extraterritorialidad, categoría implícita en su obra que lleva al lector a descubrir y traspasar la frontera que, según Gloria Anzaldúa “es una línea divisoria, una fina raya a lo largo de un borde empinado. Un territorio fronterizo es un lugar …
Elmira Louie What is a border? Some perceive it geographically, marked by natural landmarks or military posts separating one nation from another (Popescu, 2011; Yuval-Davis et al., 2019; Turner, 2020). Others define borders theoretically as a third space where differences intersect (Anzaldúa, 1987; Sandoval 1997; Mignolo, 2000). As this journal demonstrates, the more diverse forms …