The Ravickians
By: Renee Gladman
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Dorothy, a publishing project; Distributed by Small Press Distribution
Published: 2011
Place of publication: [United States]; [Berkeley, Calif.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 167
ISBN-13: 9780984469321
Subjects: Imaginary places; Fiction
Description: Fiction. LGBT Studies. African American Studies. The second volume of Gladman's Ravicka trilogy continues the author's profound meditation upon translation and the ephemeral. THE RAVICKIANS narrates the day-long odyssey of Luswage Amini, the Great Ravickian Novelist, who journeys through the city to attend the reading of an old friend. Where the earlier volume, EVENT FACTORY, explores Ravicka from the outside, via a visitor's attempt to understand and interpret that city's irreducible strangeness, THE RAVICKIANS faces the problem of translation from the perspective of an insider who struggles, throughout her account, to make plain the political and personal crises of Ravickian life that she knows to be untranslatable.
Notes: "Second volume of Gladman's Ravicka trilogy continues the author's profound meditation upon translation and the ephemeral."--P. [4] of cover.