Download or read book Translation as Transhumance written by Mireille Gansel and published by Feminist Press at CUNY. This book was released on 2017-11-20 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mireille Gansel grew up in the traumatic aftermath of her family losing everything—including their native languages—to Nazi Germany. In the 1960s and 70s, she translated poets from East Berlin and Vietnam. Gansel’s debut conveys the estrangement every translator experiences by moving between tongues, and muses on how translation becomes an exercise of empathy between those in exile.