Silence is My Mother Tongue
Sulaiman Addonia’s second novel offers a chaotic depiction of the inner workings of a refugee camp in Sudan following an exceptional and exceptionally close pair of siblings.
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Their eyes were watching God
Hurston’s prose is startling in its beauty and insight, funny in its casual observations of human behaviour and conversation, and entirely unapologetic.
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macht.sprache. & Artificially Correct: Diskussion mit Lann Hornscheidt und Şeyda Kurt (Part 1)
On 4 June, 2021, we hosted a discussion event with Lann Hornscheidt and Şeyda Kurt in cooperation with the Goethe-Institut. As part of the projects macht.sprache. and Artificially Correct, we were able to learn from the guests about ways of dealing with politically sensitive terms in writing and translating.
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Sister Outsider
Sister Outsider by African-American, lesbian, feminist poet and activist Audre Lorde is a foundational text for anyone interested in intersectionality and reflecting on their own social positions.
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Sula
Sula, first published in 1973, is the second novel by Toni Morrison, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, whose writing offered up a multi-faceted language about Black experiences, and which continues to serve as a great source of inspiration to many.
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macht.sprache.: A discussion with Mirjam Nuenning and Dr. Michaela Dudley – part 2
The second part of the transcript from our discussion with Dr. Michaela Dudley and Mirjam Nuenning that took place on 19 May 2021.
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Sensuous Knowledge
Sensuous knowledge is a way of knowing more than your mind, with your body and soul. This book is not just a biting rebuff to Europatriarchy, but an attempt to centre ways of seeing and knowing the world that are better for everyone.
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Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route
In Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route, Saidiya Hartman presents a careful meditation on histories of slavery and complicity.
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macht.sprache.: A discussion with Dr Michaela Dudley and Mirjam Nuenning.
On 19 May 2021, we got to hear from Dr Michaela Dudley and Mirjam Nuenning about their thoughts on translating politically sensitive language.
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Where Jhumpa Lahiri finds herself linguistically
Jhumpa Lahiri wrote her latest novel in Italian. Afterwards she translated it into English herself. The deliberate shift in her own language focus invites me to question several things: the linguistic pressure to conform that migrants of Colour often experience. And the common idea that people can only express themselves well in one language – their mother tongue.
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