Jhumpa Lahiri, Translating Myself and Others

Benedetta Cutolo (CUNY Graduate Center)

Ed. by Jo Ann Cavallo, Columbia University
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.6.1: Italian Writing and Culture, 453-present.
Vol. editors: Carla Bregman (Independent Scholar - North America), Jo Ann Cavallo (Columbia University)

Dates

First circulation or publication May 2022

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United States (Publication/ performance)

Genres and Modes

Non-Fiction
- Essay Collection

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Released in May 2022 by Princeton University Press,

Translating Myself and Others

represents Jhumpa Lahiri’s most recent non-fiction book, marking her third venture into this genre. Articulated in a series of ten essays, written in a compound of Italian and English, translated by others or self-translated, the collection extends to the field of translation and self-translation some of the reflections on the questions of language, identity, and cultural assignation initiated by Lahiri in her 2015 memoir,

In altre parole

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In Other Words

Following the success of In altre parole, Lahiri published four more books in Italian. These include Il vestito dei libri [The Clothing of Books] (2016), a concise personal essay exploring the interplay between text and image, the novel Dove mi trovo

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Citation: Cutolo, Benedetta. "Translating Myself and Others". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 18 December 2023 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=41203, accessed 09 May 2024.]

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