Christi Ann Merrill
Biographic Data
| ID | 3784458 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christi Ann Merrill |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christi Ann |
| FAMILY NAME | Merrill |
| SIGNATURE | MERRILL C A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Michigan |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 2 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Lyricism of Violence: Translating Faith in Revolution
This essay offers a response—part plea, part protest—to recent events in Pakistan, looking to Agha Shahid Ali's lyrical translation of an Urdu poem by Faiz Ahmed Faiz that asks compellingly, “Friends, what will happen now?” Faiz in his day ignored Eisenhower's empty talk of “mutual understanding” and wrote instead of revolution, adapting the ghazal tradition to include horrifying details of state-sponsored violence. How do we assess such efforts …
Laughing Out of Place: Humour Alliances and Other Postcolonial Translations inIn an Antique Land
This essay looks closely at the rhetorical tools of the postcolonial trade by examining humourous passages from Amitav Ghosh's In an Antique Land – a work which itself combines scholarship and literary non-fiction – in order to ask how we might read writing that plays with the fixed, static binaries of postcolonial relation we so regularly critique. I apply recent insights in cultural translation regarding the politics of figurative location to o…
Laughing Out of Place: Humour Alliances and Other Postcolonial Translations inIn an Antique Land
This essay looks closely at the rhetorical tools of the postcolonial trade by examining humourous passages from Amitav Ghosh's In an Antique Land – a work which itself combines scholarship and literary non-fiction – in order to ask how we might read writing that plays with the fixed, static binaries of postcolonial relation we so regularly critique. I apply recent insights in cultural translation regarding the politics of figurative location to o…
Laughing Out of Place: Humour Alliances and Other Postcolonial Translations inIn an Antique Land
This essay looks closely at the rhetorical tools of the postcolonial trade by examining humourous passages from Amitav Ghosh's In an Antique Land – a work which itself combines scholarship and literary non-fiction – in order to ask how we might read writing that plays with the fixed, static binaries of postcolonial relation we so regularly critique. I apply recent insights in cultural translation regarding the politics of figurative location to o…
The Lyricism of Violence: Translating Faith in Revolution
This essay offers a response—part plea, part protest—to recent events in Pakistan, looking to Agha Shahid Ali's lyrical translation of an Urdu poem by Faiz Ahmed Faiz that asks compellingly, “Friends, what will happen now?” Faiz in his day ignored Eisenhower's empty talk of “mutual understanding” and wrote instead of revolution, adapting the ghazal tradition to include horrifying details of state-sponsored violence. How do we assess such efforts …
Aesthetics (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Apotheosis (1 works) · Dream (1 works) · Epistemology (1 works) · Faith (1 works)