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Translating "Ada's Realm" : A Translators' Chat with Jon Cho-Polizzi, translator of Sharon Dodua Otoo's "Adas Raum" Cho-Polizzi, Jon

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Sharon Dodua Otoo’s debut novel Ada’s Realm (German: Adas Raum) is a tour de force of West African history, Black German identity, Holocaust memory, and contemporary decolonial cosmologies. Winner of the prestigious Ingeborg Bachmann Prize in 2016, Otoo (b. 1972 in London) rose to fame as an additional-language writer of German, coming from a Black British intellectual and social formation.

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Title
Translating "Ada's Realm" : A Translators' Chat with Jon Cho-Polizzi, translator of Sharon Dodua Otoo's "Adas Raum"
Creator
Cho-Polizzi, Jon
Contributor
University of British Columbia. Department of Central, Eastern, and Northern European Studies
Date Issued
2022-09-27
Description
Sharon Dodua Otoo’s debut novel Ada’s Realm (German: Adas Raum) is a tour de force of West African history, Black German identity, Holocaust memory, and contemporary decolonial cosmologies. Winner of the prestigious Ingeborg Bachmann Prize in 2016, Otoo (b. 1972 in London) rose to fame as an additional-language writer of German, coming from a Black British intellectual and social formation.
Type
Moving Image; Sound
Language
eng
Series
Ziegler lecture series
Date Available
2022-10-19
Provider
Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
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Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
DOI
10.14288/1.0421304
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/2429/82888
Affiliation
Non UBC
Peer Review Status
Unreviewed
Scholarly Level
Faculty
Rights URI
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
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