Join us for a special night of readings and discussion to launch a new folio in the Transpacific Literary Project: Insurgent Tongues. In efforts to dismantle the languages of domination, contributors to the folio and guests will share their distinct approaches to probing the insurgent nature of language and languages of (counter)insurgency.

Tyrell Haberkorn, Sophia Terazawa, Nguyen Quoc Vinh, and Gina Apostol will read from their individual works and join in a group discussion moderated by Vicente Rafael, author of Motherless Tongues: The Insurgency of Language amid Wars of Translation.

Starting from the history of militarized translation practices during Cold War-era conflicts in Southeast Asia, the group will discuss relationships between war and translation today, emphasizing language’s resistance to weaponization and the “irreducibly insurgent element in every language that undermines attempts at mastery.”

This event is co-sponsored by NYSEAN.

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