“When a feminist translator responds to her calling the world is enlarged and a better place This book is exquisite in its scope and its wellthought out approach to translation Wangui wa Goro translator of Vronique Tadjo and Ngg wa ThiongoReading these rich personal and lyrical essays allowed me to connect with the lived experience of translation each author shares not only a passion for language but also their experience with the sound taste smell music and even posture of various languages of the global South their words reflect on decolonial and feminist practices in translation while celebrating the beauty and the possibility of language its ecstasies and its efflorescence and what it means to live between tonguesDr Mehr Farooqi University of Virginia Author Ghalib A Wilderness at my DoorstepA powerful exploration of the complex and pressing issues facing translation now With a deep commitment to interrogating the act of translation from the ground up this volume tackles questions of translatability and resists regimes of monolingualism and borders These politically charged essays offer a muchneeded nourishing approach to translation bringing acute attention to the processual in translation For anyone interested in the power and politics of translation in our world today this collection is a mustreadDr Dima Ayoub Middlebury College Author Paratext and Power Modern Arabic Literature in Translation forthcoming”