Hopscotch!

Yo-Yo Boing! Giannina Braschi on Translation, Temporality, and the Future


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Braschi’s novel resists translation both because it is already in translation—and translation cannot be translated—and because it touches on the untranslatable, on the limits of language and meaning.


By Jon Beasley-Murray, University of British Columbia


00:00 Introduction

06:37 Translation, Movement, and Nonsense
11:11 Questions
16:05 Kairos and the Future Event
26:43 Credits


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Hopscotch!By Jon Beasley-Murray