On Your Feet: A Novel in Translations By Jacqueline Feldman
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How in a time of vibrant need do you surface what is repressed societally lodged in the political unconscious By translating it Jacqueline Feldman has found Combining fiction in translation travelogue essay the postcard and a scholarly monograph On Your Feet tells the story of a provincial city s victory over the far right figure Marine Le Pen It is the story of a cat owning local poet s valiant resistance and of a US woman let us say an American girl making her own Joan of Arc like entrance into the fray This novel in translations slows time to take with precision the imprint of a moment in French and world history It was a moment when fascist speech could be distinguished still from the great mass separated out leaving the moment like the language open to intervention Making contributions to the theory and practice of translation which has been considered an applied linguistics On Your Feet is a searching theorization of the politics of literature What it offers to readers of both languages or either is a new kind of applied literature Featuring a story by Nathalie Quintane On Your Feet A Novel in Translations
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