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Black Skin, White Masks
by Frantz Fanon, Charles Lam Markmann
by Frantz Fanon, Charles Lam Markmann
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On summary comparison, it's hard to overstate how bloodless and jilted the 2008 (Richard Philcox)translation seems next to to the 1967 Charles Lam Markmann. I don't speak French. However, I do read English. If Markmann's version is only so beautiful and compelling because he's taken liberties, I might be able to live with that. The worse accusation might be aimed at Philcox: has he made Fanon more staid and classical in attempts to make him feel more canonical? Isn't that kind of like posthumous whiteface? Somebody that speakie de French, take a look! Tell me!
compare here: http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/08021...
(Note that it says that this one is the Constance Farrington Translation here, but that is wrong.)
with here:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/08021...
With some of the original French here: http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peau_noi...
How much you want a bet that Philcox is English and Markmann is not? Yeah? Ok, I'm looking it up.
Couldn't find him. Still, a striaght man with that much penis in his name ought to be able to handle the french language. Maybe he has?
And, anyone know about the Constance Farrington one (1963)?
On summary comparison, it's hard to overstate how bloodless and jilted the 2008 (Richard Philcox)translation seems next to to the 1967 Charles Lam Markmann. I don't speak French. However, I do read English. If Markmann's version is only so beautiful and compelling because he's taken liberties, I might be able to live with that. The worse accusation might be aimed at Philcox: has he made Fanon more staid and classical in attempts to make him feel more canonical? Isn't that kind of like posthumous whiteface? Somebody that speakie de French, take a look! Tell me!
compare here: http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/08021...
(Note that it says that this one is the Constance Farrington Translation here, but that is wrong.)
with here:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/08021...
With some of the original French here: http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peau_noi...
How much you want a bet that Philcox is English and Markmann is not? Yeah? Ok, I'm looking it up.
Couldn't find him. Still, a striaght man with that much penis in his name ought to be able to handle the french language. Maybe he has?
And, anyone know about the Constance Farrington one (1963)?
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10. Juli, 07:43 Uhr
I'd say that the Philcox takes a lot of liberties. For example, translating "le Noir" as "Black man" is not accurate; although wanting to avoid "Negro" as the offensive word that it is nowadays, it is nevertheless a more faithful translation. Avoiding it dehistorcizes the text in a powerful way. I'd stick with the Markmann translation, and for other reasons too; but I only looked at them in a fairly cursory way.
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