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An Interview with Emily Apter.

An interview with author and professor of French and Comparative Literature Emily Apter is presented. Topics covered include Apter's interest in untranslatability, her views with regards to equality versus equivalence, and the impact of the politics of class inequality to translational economies. Ap...

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Published in:CR: The New Centennial Review Vol. 16; no. 1; pp. 9 - 28
Main Author: Bertacco, Simona
Format: Interview
Published: Michigan State University Press Spring2016
Subjects:
Apter, Emily
Comparative literature
Equivalence (Linguistics)
Equality
Monolingualism
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost
Summary:An interview with author and professor of French and Comparative Literature Emily Apter is presented. Topics covered include Apter's interest in untranslatability, her views with regards to equality versus equivalence, and the impact of the politics of class inequality to translational economies. Apter also talks about the postcolonial politics of translational inequality, critical translational humanities, and Angolophone monolingualism.