emily’s Reviews > Violent Phenomena: 21 Essays on Translation > Status Update

‘Hemingway—whitest of all white authors—god of all Mythical English Readers, and this is why his DNA runs so deep in American letters today. When I translate—it’s really me for whom I’m translating—I am the true English reader. Point being, we need a movement to make real changes in the landscape—collective action, the sum of all of our individual efforts coalescing into a single, anticolonial direction.’ — Anton Hur