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“And in this heart, which has neither had a cause nor the lack of one”: On Translation, Craft, and Necessity

Translators reflect on the relationship between craft, process, and political necessity, asking: How do translators negotiate the granular details of linguistic material without losing sight of the urgency that moves a translation? How can translation create spaces of solidarity beyond the demands of a struggling market, forming bonds across contexts that most need them? What might a renewed internationalism look like—one that more overtly reconnects urgencies that are at once literary and political? With contributions by Helen Dimos, William Rowe, Mayada Ibrahim, and Nicholas Glastonbury

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