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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“African Authors in Markets” – a panel discussion
Many of us who love literature might like to think of it as untethered from the mundane aspects of the real world, but books emerge and circulate in a literary market much like other markets, and literary value – however one might define it – is definitely not the sole determinant of what gets a book published and read.
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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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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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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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Commissioned texts on German colonialism
In addition to our work as editors of poco.lit., we offer a number of services in related fields, predominantly but not exclusively concerned with postcolonial topics. Recently, a number of magazines have been published to which we contributed: three booklets on Berlin’s colonial entanglements and a magazine on German colonialism in China.
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Namwali Serpell’s upcoming The Furrows: An Elegy
Namwali Serpell’s second novel The Furrows: An Elegy is due out next year, and it promises to be a book to look out for. In September, Serpell already presented the novel in an online sitting of the W. E. B. Du Bois Research Institute Colloquium Series.
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