On Psychoanalysis, Disillusion, and Death: Dead Certainties

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]

Bilingual Reading of “RAIS, BENTALHA…A year later”

November, 2014 Bilingual Reading of Assia Djebar’s poem “RAIS, BENTALHA…A year later”, (RAIS, BENTALHA…Un an après) Bilingual Readings Program at the ALTA (American Literary Translators Association), Milwaukee, WI … [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]