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Signs on stage: Translating theatre into a sign language
Sign languages, the visual-gestural languages of Deaf communities, lack a written form.
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Short Stories of the World: Africa
This intended collection will include around 20 African short stories which will be translated into Icelandic.
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Translation of the Amharic Novel, Tobiya (1907) into English
African-language literatures have long and deep histories in their societies but take place within fenced literary spaces and typically are unavailable to world literature audiences.
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World Literature, Minor Languages, and the Art of Translation: The Example of Afrikaans
By examining a number of literary works which were published in both Afrikaans and English in the past 25 years in the context of recent studies of the question of translation and world literature, this project will attempt to answer such questions as: Does translation of literary works into major languages represent a danger for the future of minor languages?
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51 Poets: an Anthology of World Poetry
For a Latin American publisher I have undertaken to compile an anthology of world poetry.
