poco.lit.‘s top 5 picks in 2022
The editors of poco.lit. share their favorite books of 2022 – five novels by incredibly talented writers from around the world
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Event: Translating Violence and Resistance
Join us for a conversation with Maaza Mengiste and Patricia Klobusiczky about languages of violence and resistance.
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Book Release: Die Postkoloniale Stadt lesen. Historische Erkundungen in Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg
On September 15, the FHXB Museum will celebrate the publication of the anthology Reading the Postcolonial City. (Book and event in German)
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Translation Workshop: macht.sprache. Sprint
We warmly invite you to join us for a workshop on possible ways of dealing with politically sensitive language in translation. Join us at the Literarisches Clloquium Berlin on September 3.
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poco.lit.’s Top 5 Summer Reads
Whether you’re lucky enough to be going away for a summer holiday, or staying home, we hope you find time to get some reading in. We’ve compiled a summer reading list for you in case you’re looking for inspiration.
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Support poco.lit. with Steady
poco.lit. has now been in existence for two years. If you would like to help make poco.lit. more sustainable, and help us to continue making it a space of high quality content, you can now support us through Steady.
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4 Books about Language, Race and Gender
As part of our macht.sprache. project, we dealt in depth with concepts related to race and gender. For this, it was necessary to understand how linguistic discrimination works and that it is part of discriminatory social structures. Here we present 4 books (3 written in German, 1 in English) that have shaped our thinking about concepts and terminologies around race and gender.
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The macht.sprache. extension is here!
Since the beginning of 2021, we here at poco.lit. have been working on the macht.sprache. project with Kolja Lange and Timur Celikel. The project aims to foster politically sensitive translation. Our new browser extension will help achieve this goal.
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poco.lit.‘s favorite books of 2021
The editors of poco.lit. share their favorite books of 2021 – four novels and one book of non-fiction by five incredibly talented writers.
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macht.sprache. behind the Scenes 3: Developing the Text Checker
The macht.sprache. project has been running since the beginning of 2021. Here we offer some insights into the thought processes behind the development of the Text Checker and explain why it is accompanied by a translation manifesto.
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