‘Both more than a language and no more of a language’: Michael Hartnett and the Politics of Translation.

Abstract

This essay looks at the politics of translation through a specific focus on the poetry, in Irish and in English, of Michael Hartnett. It suggests a politics of translation that is emancipatory and creative, and deconstructs traditional hierarchies of source and target languages

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Citation

O'Brien, E.(2003).‘Both more than a language and no more of a language.’in McDonagh,J and Newman,S (eds.)Remembering Michael Hartnett: A Language Seldom Spoken. Four Courts Press:Dublin,146-159.