Untranslatability and an invitation to adventure

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1 There is much more to be said about this. As Loredana Polezzi (2012) notes, self-translation can be both productive and destructive. I discuss this in Yeoman (2022).

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Elizabeth Yeoman

Elizabeth Yeoman's scholarly writing and research are about language, culture, walking and memory. She is the author of Exactly What I Said: Translating Words and Worlds (2022) and co-editor and co-translator with Innu elder and environmental activist Tshaukuesh Elizabeth Penashue of Penashue's Nitinikiau Innusi: I Keep the Land Alive (2019). She has also published poetry and travel writing and contributes to local and national media on active transportation and mobility justice. She recently retired as a professor in the Faculty of Education at Memorial University, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador.