August marks Women in Translation month, the time to celebrate and read works in translation by women authors. Liverpool University Press supports Women in Translation all year round, publishing important works by both female authors and female translators. Next month sees the publication of the second edition of Montserrat Lunati’s Rainy Days, a collection of short stories by … Continue reading
Guyane, Frenchness and Macron’s mistake
To celebrate the release of Locating Guyane, we caught up with editors Sarah Wood and Catriona MacLeod to discuss how changing perspectives of Guyane are reconceptualising its association with 'Frenchness'. Locating Guyane explores geographical, literary and cultural ‘locations’ of Guyane, past and present. What did you find by examining Guyane from multiple perspectives? Guyane is in some … Continue reading
Federico García Lorca, his life and selected Suites. Five minutes with Roberta Ann Quance
To celebrate the release of Federico García Lorca, Selected Suites, translator Roberta Ann Quance discusses Lorca's youth, early works and the various versions of the Suites. The suites are a body of work of over 200 poems that Lorca wrote between 1920 and 1923. To understand exactly where they come from we need to go back to Lorca’s first … Continue reading
The Cartographic Capital – Q&A with Kory Olson
This week we're celebrating the first title in the highly anticipated Studies in Modern and Contemporary France series. We sat down with author Kory Olson to discuss Parisian migration, urban spaces and the Third Republic in his new book The Cartographic Capital. Celebrating The Cartographic Capital by Kory Olson as the first title in the Studies in Modern and Contemporary France series. … Continue reading
The Performance of Listening in Postcolonial Francophone Culture – Five Minutes with Jennifer Solheim
'How do voices find listeners?' To celebrate the release of The Performance of Listening in Postcolonial Francophone Culture, we caught up with Jennifer Solheim to discuss the representation of music and listening. The Performance of Listening in Postcolonial Francophone Culture argues that globalized media has allowed for efficient transmission of transnational culture, why do you think this is … Continue reading
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