Reading List


Authors/Texts

Kader Abdolah

Malek Alloula

Gloria E. Anzaldúa, Borderlands/La Frontera

Caroline Bergvall, VIA

Caroline Bergvall, FUSES

Barry Blesser and Linda-Ruth Salter, Spaces Speak, Are you Listening?


Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Dictee


Hélène Cixous, The Shout of Literature

Julio Cortázar, Rayuela (Hopscotch)

ee cummings

Rene Daniels, Spreeksel

Jacques Derrida, Archive Fever: A Freudian Impression, trans. Eric Prenowitz (Chicago & London: University of Chicago Press, 1995).

T.S. Eliot, "Mathew Arnold," The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism (1933).

Frantz Fanon, Wretched of the Earth

Chitra Gajadin, Padi voor Batavieren


Cui Jian "A Piece of Red Cloth", trans. Andrew Jones.

Julia Kristeva, The Severed Head, (On Drawing: Speed of Thought)

Rada Ivekovic "Permanent Translation"

Jean Jacques Lecercle, The Violence of Language

Osip Mandelstam


Daniel N. Stern, Forms of Vitality (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010).

Antoni Muntadas, On Translation

Jean Luc Nancy "L'Intrus"

Eric Prenowitz, "Translators's note"


Haitham Wardani

Christian Wiman "Secret Hearing: On Translating Mandelstam"

Louis Wolfson


Artists/Works

Joan La Barbara's performance of Christian Marclay's Manga Scroll

Christian Marclay, Manga Scroll

Carolee Schneeman, film

The ThirdTongue, 2003, 16mm, Experimental film, B&W, Sound, 14 min.