“Kaw-naw-nay-sgee. That’s how you say your name, Spider, in Cherokee.”
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On Translating Culture
An essay exploring the folktale selection in the Translating Culture collection By Sofi Sanders Like most children, I was fascinated by stories from a young age. I would often ask my parents to read the classic tales associated with a Russian childhood, such as Kolobok, the story of a ball of dough who runs away…
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Imperfect Containments
“By consenting to ‘hold hospitably’ an alien life force, Troi practices the “real, loving solidarity” envisioned by Lewis. Her thirty-six hours of motherhood are a tutorial in the ethics of transformative translation where input does not equal output, but some genuine connection between two ways of being and thinking is nevertheless made.”
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The Story of the Fisherman
There was a certain fisherman, advanced in age, who had a wife and three children; and though he was in indigent circumstances, it was his custom to cast his net, every day, no more than four times.
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The Giant Tortoise’s Golden Rule
This story is part of the Translating Culture collection, a multimedia showcase of folktales translated from Russian, Spanish, and Arabic, curated by Sofi Sanders. An article discussing the collection is available in the non-fiction section. A story of hunting, respect, and mutual care A chapter from South American Jungle Tales by Horacio Quiroga Once there…
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