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An Intimate Reading at The Russell

Thank you to Hugh Russell for hosting Me & My Man’s Wife: A Testimony of Deliverance at The Russell

I’ve known Hugh, the owner of downtown Hartford’s hotspot, The Russellfor many years. He has always been so supportive to me and so many other artists, always opening his doors and giving us an outlet to promote our work and talents. I remember when I was doing Poetz Corner TV, I asked Hugh if I…

Tues 1 December,  7pm-9pm SPACE, 129–131 Mare Street, Hackney London, E8 3RH

The next meeting of the Feminist Duration Reading Group will focus on translation as a feminist practice.

Together we will read sections of Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak's "The Politics of Translation" from her book Outside in the Teaching Machine (1993). Though the essay does not relate directly to the reading group’s primary focus on the texts and practices of Italian feminisms, we will consider how Spivak's emphasis on translation as an imperative for feminist politics relates to the group’s overall aims and ambitions. 

Three short introductory excerpts, taken from Italian feminist texts in English-language editions, are included as supplementary reading. Teresa de Lauretis and Lucia Chiavola Birnbaum's translation notes, though brief, highlight several issues relating to the interpretation of Italian feminist texts in a second language. Navigating these issues, Sandra Kemp and Paola Bono's introduction to The Lovely Mirror: Italian Perspectives on Feminist Theory presents, instead of a traditional introductory text, a Q&A between a British academic and her Italian colleague.

The Feminist Duration Reading Group is open to all. Please contact the Feminist Duration organisers if you would like to receive the readings: feministduration[at]gmail.com. Please contact Persilia for directions [email protected]

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Readings

Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty "The Politics of Translation," in Outside in the Teaching Machine, London: Psychology Press, 1993.

Various excerpts including:

de Lauretis, Teresa "The Practice of Sexual Difference and Feminist Thought in Italy: An Introductory Essay," in The Milan Women's Bookstore Collective, Sexual Difference: A Theory of Social-Symbolic Practice, Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1990

Chiavola Birnbaum, Lucia Liberazione della donna / Feminism in Italy, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press, 1986