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Pirates were the reason why Puerto Ricans survived and thrived under a harsh
colonial Spanish rule, because without pirates, people would have starved.
And so pirates were an important economic movement. They were necessary. And
I understand Vikings also the same way. Vikings were, in many ways,
necessary for the movement of the economy. They did so many so many
important things because of their movement and travel. And so the more I
understand them through that Caribbean lens, I feel like it gives me a
different access to them.
Nahir I. Otaño Gracia is an
Assistant Professor of English at the University of New Mexico. Thanks to a
Mellon Fellowship, she is currently a member at the Institute for Advanced
Study at Princeton, NJ. Her theoretical frameworks include translation theory
and practice, the global North Atlantic (Britain, Iberia, and Scandinavia),
and critical identity studies. Her current projects include a monograph
entitled The Other Faces of Arthur: Medieval Arthurian Texts from the Global
North Atlantic, and a co-edited volume entitled Women's Lives: Self-Representation, Reception, and Appropriation in the Middle Ages, which will be
coming out early next year.
Nahir joins Chris and Suzanne to talk about women’s agency in Laxdæla Saga,
about what reading the sagas in multiple languages and from a Puerto Rican
perspective reveals about them, and about some other Icelandic sagas that
translate the Arthurian legends.
Show Notes.
Nahir Otaño Gracia’s website.
Jorge Luis Borges: Literatures germánicas
medievales [Ancient Germanic
Literatures].
Gabriel García Márquez: Cien años de soledad [One
Hundred Years of Solitude].
Three volumes of English translations of the Arthurian sagas have been
published with Marianne Kalinke as editor: The Tristan
Legend; The Knights of the Round
Table; and Hærra Ivan.
Some essays by Nahir that are well worth your time:
On Hidden Scars and the Passive Voice
Movements of Exclusion: On Constructing Borders and Building Anxiety
Teaching Race: Preparing Students and Creating a Safe Environment
Support The Spouter-Inn and all of the
Megaphonic podcasts over on Patreon! (Thank you!)
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Pirates were the reason why Puerto Ricans survived and thrived under a harsh
colonial Spanish rule, because without pirates, people would have starved.
And so pirates were an important economic movement. They were necessary. And
I understand Vikings also the same way. Vikings were, in many ways,
necessary for the movement of the economy. They did so many so many
important things because of their movement and travel. And so the more I
understand them through that Caribbean lens, I feel like it gives me a
different access to them.
Nahir I. Otaño Gracia is an
Assistant Professor of English at the University of New Mexico. Thanks to a
Mellon Fellowship, she is currently a member at the Institute for Advanced
Study at Princeton, NJ. Her theoretical frameworks include translation theory
and practice, the global North Atlantic (Britain, Iberia, and Scandinavia),
and critical identity studies. Her current projects include a monograph
entitled The Other Faces of Arthur: Medieval Arthurian Texts from the Global
North Atlantic, and a co-edited volume entitled Women's Lives: Self-Representation, Reception, and Appropriation in the Middle Ages, which will be
coming out early next year.
Nahir joins Chris and Suzanne to talk about women’s agency in Laxdæla Saga,
about what reading the sagas in multiple languages and from a Puerto Rican
perspective reveals about them, and about some other Icelandic sagas that
translate the Arthurian legends.
Show Notes.
Nahir Otaño Gracia’s website.
Jorge Luis Borges: Literatures germánicas
medievales [Ancient Germanic
Literatures].
Gabriel García Márquez: Cien años de soledad [One
Hundred Years of Solitude].
Three volumes of English translations of the Arthurian sagas have been
published with Marianne Kalinke as editor: The Tristan
Legend; The Knights of the Round
Table; and Hærra Ivan.
Some essays by Nahir that are well worth your time:
On Hidden Scars and the Passive Voice
Movements of Exclusion: On Constructing Borders and Building Anxiety
Teaching Race: Preparing Students and Creating a Safe Environment
Support The Spouter-Inn and all of the
Megaphonic podcasts over on Patreon! (Thank you!)
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