For my final project, I’m working on a translation into French of Etel Adnan’s book length poem, “There,” which she wrote in English. Through she wrote in both languages, I haven’t found a version of this poem in French, and…
Codes Unknown
Recently my partner and I went to see Code Unknown or Code Inconnu (2000) directed by Michael Haneke, and the film became a simulacrum of multilingualism which we return to so often in class. The original film is in French,…
A particularity of gesture
The question quickly becomes one of attention—of where it emerges. Faced with the diagrammatic potential of calligraphic script, Etel Adnan looks to the “power of the occluded text,” to the shimmer of what was before she enacts the calligraphic translation.…
