Posts Tagged ‘ Chaim Bialik ’

a tongue touching other teeth: on Négritude and Zionism

November 13, 2010
swastikas at the French market at Fort de France, Martinique, 2008 (c) Quintan Ana Wikswo

Within the phenomenon of translation, two word worlds are forever locked in an embrace of argument and seduction. As though they are lovers locked in a train berth, embarked on a cross-continental journey. In this awkward, unfamiliar, clumsy space, sudden intimacies take place. For the native tongue, a second language requires a tongue touching...
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