Between Worlds, Between Words: Some Thoughts on the Problems and Dimensions of Translation
Location
Belmont Heights Church
Presentation Type
Presentation
Start Date
5-11-2004 7:00 PM
Description
Dr. Eva Hoffman, child of Holocaust survivors and an immigrant from Poland herself, will discuss the experience of emigration and the many kinds of translation and self-translation that requires; she will also consider issues of translating traumatic events of the past in terms of the language of the present, the subject of her most recent book, After Such Knowledge.
Recommended Citation
Hoffman, Eva, "Between Worlds, Between Words: Some Thoughts on the Problems and Dimensions of Translation" (2004). Humanities Symposium. 5.
https://repository.belmont.edu/humanities_symposium/2004/2004/5
Between Worlds, Between Words: Some Thoughts on the Problems and Dimensions of Translation
Belmont Heights Church
Dr. Eva Hoffman, child of Holocaust survivors and an immigrant from Poland herself, will discuss the experience of emigration and the many kinds of translation and self-translation that requires; she will also consider issues of translating traumatic events of the past in terms of the language of the present, the subject of her most recent book, After Such Knowledge.
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Keynote Address