I ❤️ that everyone's sharing Keene's "Translating Poetry, Translating Blackness," but the fact we keep sharing that 1 essay shows how lacking translation studies has been in engaging w/Blackness, how few Black TS scholars there are in US/UK, & how we privilege only a few of them.
I want to #CiteBlackWomen and note some Black women whose intellectual and creative work in translation studies has been helpful to me.
Kaiama Glover @inthewhirld's scholarship and translations, including this great essay: muse.jhu.edu/article/728220
Gabrielle Civil @gab_civil's performance piece about translation in Kitchen Table Translation. So many amazing things to unpack.
Sharon Masingale Bell, including her contributions to Translating Slavery and her essay "In the Shadow of the Father Tongue" in Between Languages and Cultures
The work of Rose-Myriam Réjouis, including her translations of, afterwords to, and scholarship on Patrick Chamoiseau.
This special issue of Revista Artemis on Translation and Black Feminisms: periodicos.ufpb.br/ojs/index.php/…
Please feel free to add to this list to #CiteBlackWomen in translation studies.
