SAINT-LOUBERT, LAËTITIA
Irish Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow @ UCD
Bio
Laëtitia Saint-Loubert completed a PhD in Caribbean Studies at the University of Warwick. She is a practising literary translator and is currently working as an IRC Postdoctoral Fellow at University College Dublin on a research project entitled “Rethinking Translation Studies from Caribbean Meridians: Towards an Ecosystemic Approach”. Her first monograph, The Caribbean in Translation: Remapping Thresholds of Dislocation (Oxford, Peter Lang) was published in 2020, following receipt of the 2018 Peter Lang Young Scholars Award in Comparative Literature.
Geographical location : Santurce, Puerto Rico
Research Area and Interest :
Social Media
Panel
Translating the Caribbean
Presentation
TRANSLATING CONTEMPORARY CARIBBEAN WRITING
This contribution will focus on the translation of contemporary Caribbean literature. It will take as its primary case studies two recent experiences of translation from and into English of, respectively, a novel by Trinidadian writer Elizabeth Nunez and a short story by Martinican writer Roger Parsemain, to interrogate the politics of transnational literary circulation.