In her essay “Theorizing Feminist Discourse/Translation,” from 1989, the Canadian critic Barbara Godard reframed translation as a feminist intervention into society’s dominant discourses. With The Translating Subject, Melissa Tanti expands on this idea as she examines how a “translating subject” emerges from the space where “languages encounter each other.”
Analyzing works by the Montreal writers Erín Moure and Nicole Brossard along with the American punk virtuoso Kathy…
Giovanna Riccio
Giovanna Riccio has published three books of poetry, including Plastic’s Republic.