Celia Dropkin's "DESIRES": Why Translation Matters

Name: Celia Dropkin's "DESIRES": Why Translation Matters
Start: 2024-10-10T13:00:00-04:00
Location: 202 S Thayer St, Ste 2111, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, Michigan 48104

Schedule

Thu Oct 10 2024 at 01:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

202 S Thayer St, Ste 2111, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, Michigan 48104 | Ann Arbor, MI

Celia Dropkin's "DESIRES": Why Translation Matters
Speaker: Anita Norich
Thursday, October 10 @ 1 - 2:30 PM
2022 South Thayer Building
The English translation of Celia Dropkin's novel, DESIRES, joins the increasing number of translations by women who wrote in Yiddish. What might account for this increase? How do translations of women's prose change our understanding of Yiddish literature? What should be translated? And how? What impact have developments in translation theory and practice made on contemporary Yiddish translations? This talk will consider such questions as it focuses on the newly-released translation of a novel—DESIRES—by one of the most controversial modern American Yiddish writers.