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Disclaimer Intraducible: My Life / Is Based / on a Real Story
- Biography
- University of Hawai'i Press
- Volume 32, Number 1, Winter 2009
- pp. 16-25
- 10.1353/bio.0.0070
- Article
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This article showcases the tensions between the survivor's need to tell, and the constraints exercised by publishers, translators, scholars, and human rights professionals. After discussing Gail Wronsky's assertion that politics is what really gets lost in translation, it proposes two strategies to empower survivors: an affirmative action position, and a continuous engagement in co/labor/actions.