Kitchen Table Translation: An Aster(ix) Anthology

The Kitchen Table Translation issue of Aster(ix) Journal explores connections between translation and migration.

Featuring the work of immigrant and diasporic translators, it brings personal, cultural, and political dimensions of translation together with literary and aesthetic aspects of the work, and compiles writing and translation from languages including Ahmaric, Arabic, French, Greek, Japanese, Korean, Malayalam, Mandarin, Ojibwe, Portuguese, Spanish, Telugu, Turkestani, Urdu, and Wolof.

This issue, by Aster(ix) Senior Editor Madhu H. Kaza, gathers the voices of some of the most thoughful and exciting writers and translators of our times: Rosa Alcal , Francheska Alers-Rojas, Julieta Aranda, Sitaramayya Ari, Elizabeth Barrios, Sony Cor ez Bolton, Amy Sara Carroll, Iv n Chaar-L pez, Youmna Chlala, Don Mee Choi, Gabrielle Civil, Teju Cole, Bruna Dantas Lobato, Katrina Dodson, Aja Couchois Duncan, Ashraf Fayadh, Shahnaz Habib, Kyoko Hayashi, Hilda Hilst, Kim Hyesoon, Magda Kapa, Mona Kareem, John Keene, Rosamond S. King, Wen Liu, Orqu dea Morales, Lina Mounzer, Kishwar Naheed, Eiko Otake, Omar Pimienta, Mary Renda, El na Rivera, Zohra Saed, Mahwash Shoaib, Eleni Stecopoulos, Irene Stecopoulos, Cecilia Vicu a, Vimala, and Dagmawi Woubshet.