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On Writing and Translating Dézafi

Time: March 25, 2019, 5:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.

Location: Peter Graham Scholarly Commons, 114 Bird Library

Frankétienne (Haiti)
Asselin Charles (Sheridan College, Toronto)

Author Frankétienne and his translator Charles discuss the Haitian Creole writings in Dézafi (1975), recently published in English (University of Virginia Press, 2018). This talk focuses on the challenges of translating a relatively new language into a language as old and prestigious as English.

Jean Jonassaint , Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics