A Personal, Open Letter to Cristina Rivera Garza from the Translators of Her Poetry Ilana Luna and Cheyla Samuelson
Keywords:
translation, poetry, disappropriation, writing alongside, epistolaryAbstract
A personal, open letter to Cristina Rivera Garza from the translators of her poetry Ilana Luna and Cheyla Samuelson that reflects on the translation process and their poetics of translation as informed by Rivera Garza’s own writings. This epistolary essay examines Rivera Garza’s concept of disappropriation as a model for collaborative translation and offers examples from Luna and Samuelson’s translation practice, writing alongside Rivera Garza.
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