On Psychoanalysis, Disillusion, and Death: Dead Certainties by Antonie Ladan Original title: Het Vanzelfzwijgende – Over psychoanalyse, desillusie en dood Published by Routledge. London: 2014 For some years now, psychoanalysts have been trying … [Continue reading]
Illusion Confusion – The Wonderful World of Optical Deception
Illusion Confusion – The Wonderful World of Optical Deception By Paul M. Baars Introduction translated from the Dutch by Marjolijn de Jager Published by Thames & Hudson: 2014 … [Continue reading]
“Translation – A Listening Art”
in “INTIMATE ENEMIES – Translation in Francophone Contexts” Edited by Kathryn Batchelor and Claire Bisdorff Liverpool University Press. Liverpool: 2013 … [Continue reading]
Marjolijn de Jager: Linguist of the Month
October, 2014 Dutch and French literary translator, Marjolijn de Jager, Ph.D., was interviewed in October 2014 by Le-Mot-Juste-en-Anglais. Le-Mot-Juste-en-Anglais is a news and information website to help English and French language students … [Continue reading]
Gaddafi’s Harem
Gaddafi's Harem -- The Story of a Young Woman and the Abuses of Power in Libya by Annick Cojean Grove Press, New York: 2013. Original title: Les Proies … [Continue reading]
“Translating Werewere Liking: Speaking Pictures, Seeing Words”
in "The Original Explosion That Created Worlds" Essays on Werewere Liking's Art and Writings Edited by John Conteh-Morgan and Irène Assiba d’Almeida Amsterdam/New York, NY 2010. 363 pp. (Francopolyphonies 8) … [Continue reading]
The Past Ahead
The Past Ahead by Gilbert Gatore. Indiana University Press: October 2012. Global African Voices Series Original title: Le Passé devant soi … [Continue reading]
Revisiting Werewere Liking and V.Y. Mudimbe
April, 2013 Panel: "Politics, Practice, and Consequences of Literary Translation" at the ALA (African Literature Association), Charleston, SC … [Continue reading]
The Abandoned Baobab – Paperback
The Abandoned Baobab: The Autobiography of a Senegalese Woman, [Paperback] by Ken Bugul. CARAF Books: Caribbean and African Literature, 2008. Original title: Le Baobab Fou. … [Continue reading]
