Simona Bertacco
Biographic Data
| ID | 120456 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Simona Bertacco |
| GIVEN NAMES | Simona |
| FAMILY NAME | Bertacco |
| SIGNATURE | BERTACCO S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Louisville |
| ORCID | 0009-0000-9427-0463 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Multilingualism and Translation in Postcolonial Literatures / Mitmekeelsus ja tõlge postkoloniaalsetes kirjandustes
Postcolonial literatures are literatures that have a mobile base and that travel through different geographies. Their transcultural and transnational status is often accompanied by a multilingual textuality that recalls in many ways the functioning of translation as it enables a reading experience beyond national and monocultural notions of language, literature, and community. Approaching literary studies from a postcolonial and decolonial perspe…
Postcolonial Literatures and Translational Readings
Breaking and Entering the Colonial Archive
Research Article| November 01 2022 “Breaking and Entering the Colonial Archive” m. nourbeSe philip; m. nourbeSe philip Born in Tobago, m. nourbeSe philip, a former lawyer, is an unembedded poet and writer. Best known for her genre-breaking book-length epic, Zong!, she is the 2020 recipient of PEN/Nabokov Award and the 2021 recipient of the Canada Council Arts Molson Prize. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Simona Bertacco…
Translation in Caribbean Literature
This essay weaves together translation and postcolonial literary studies to propose a translational model of reading for Caribbean literature. Translation and creolization provide the conceptual and aesthetic lens for reading Caribbean literary texts: If translation is an apt model, since it captures languages in transit toward other languages and other contexts, creolization embodies the points of contact among what Naoki Sakai calls the "uncoun…
Introduction: Declining Translation
An Interview with Emily Apter
Research Article| March 01 2016 An Interview with Emily Apter Simona Bertacco Simona Bertacco Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google CR: The New Centennial Review (2016) 16 (1): 9–28. https://doi.org/10.14321/crnewcentrevi.16.1.0009 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Simona Bertacco; An Interview with Emily Apter. CR: The New Centennial Review 1 March 2016; 16 (1):…
On Translation: Between Postcolonialism and the Global Humanities
Research Article| March 01 2016 On Translation: Between Postcolonialism and the Global Humanities Simona Bertacco Simona Bertacco University of Louisville, Kentucky Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google CR: The New Centennial Review (2016) 16 (1): 177–194. https://doi.org/10.14321/crnewcentrevi.16.1.0177 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twi…
Between virtuosity and despair: Formal Experimentation in Diaspora Tales
Formal experimentation is a recurring feature in the literary output of works dedicated to the African diaspora, both in prose and in verse, and is easily understood as the artistic response to the need to recount a story that is abnormal – a story, that is, that could not be told using conventional literary models. But virtuosity is more than a merely formal device in these works: it affects both how and what it delivers, and can thus be read in…
Language and Translation in Postcolonial Literatures: Multilingual Contexts, Translational Texts
Translation in Caribbean Literature
This essay weaves together translation and postcolonial literary studies to propose a translational model of reading for Caribbean literature. Translation and creolization provide the conceptual and aesthetic lens for reading Caribbean literary texts: If translation is an apt model, since it captures languages in transit toward other languages and other contexts, creolization embodies the points of contact among what Naoki Sakai calls the "uncoun…
An Interview with Emily Apter
Research Article| March 01 2016 An Interview with Emily Apter Simona Bertacco Simona Bertacco Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google CR: The New Centennial Review (2016) 16 (1): 9–28. https://doi.org/10.14321/crnewcentrevi.16.1.0009 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Simona Bertacco; An Interview with Emily Apter. CR: The New Centennial Review 1 March 2016; 16 (1):…
Between virtuosity and despair: Formal Experimentation in Diaspora Tales
Formal experimentation is a recurring feature in the literary output of works dedicated to the African diaspora, both in prose and in verse, and is easily understood as the artistic response to the need to recount a story that is abnormal – a story, that is, that could not be told using conventional literary models. But virtuosity is more than a merely formal device in these works: it affects both how and what it delivers, and can thus be read in…
Language and Translation in Postcolonial Literatures: Multilingual Contexts, Translational Texts
Between virtuosity and despair: Formal Experimentation in Diaspora Tales
Formal experimentation is a recurring feature in the literary output of works dedicated to the African diaspora, both in prose and in verse, and is easily understood as the artistic response to the need to recount a story that is abnormal – a story, that is, that could not be told using conventional literary models. But virtuosity is more than a merely formal device in these works: it affects both how and what it delivers, and can thus be read in…
Introduction: Declining Translation
An Interview with Emily Apter
Research Article| March 01 2016 An Interview with Emily Apter Simona Bertacco Simona Bertacco Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google CR: The New Centennial Review (2016) 16 (1): 9–28. https://doi.org/10.14321/crnewcentrevi.16.1.0009 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Simona Bertacco; An Interview with Emily Apter. CR: The New Centennial Review 1 March 2016; 16 (1):…
On Translation: Between Postcolonialism and the Global Humanities
Research Article| March 01 2016 On Translation: Between Postcolonialism and the Global Humanities Simona Bertacco Simona Bertacco University of Louisville, Kentucky Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google CR: The New Centennial Review (2016) 16 (1): 177–194. https://doi.org/10.14321/crnewcentrevi.16.1.0177 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twi…
Translation in Caribbean Literature
This essay weaves together translation and postcolonial literary studies to propose a translational model of reading for Caribbean literature. Translation and creolization provide the conceptual and aesthetic lens for reading Caribbean literary texts: If translation is an apt model, since it captures languages in transit toward other languages and other contexts, creolization embodies the points of contact among what Naoki Sakai calls the "uncoun…
Postcolonial Literatures and Translational Readings
Breaking and Entering the Colonial Archive
Research Article| November 01 2022 “Breaking and Entering the Colonial Archive” m. nourbeSe philip; m. nourbeSe philip Born in Tobago, m. nourbeSe philip, a former lawyer, is an unembedded poet and writer. Best known for her genre-breaking book-length epic, Zong!, she is the 2020 recipient of PEN/Nabokov Award and the 2021 recipient of the Canada Council Arts Molson Prize. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Simona Bertacco…
Multilingualism and Translation in Postcolonial Literatures / Mitmekeelsus ja tõlge postkoloniaalsetes kirjandustes
Postcolonial literatures are literatures that have a mobile base and that travel through different geographies. Their transcultural and transnational status is often accompanied by a multilingual textuality that recalls in many ways the functioning of translation as it enables a reading experience beyond national and monocultural notions of language, literature, and community. Approaching literary studies from a postcolonial and decolonial perspe…
Linguistics (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Caribbean history, culture, and politics (4 works) · History (4 works) · Literature (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · History (3 works)