Figures of Interpretation, Paperback

This ground-breaking book assembles 31 portraits of people who interpret languages, cultures, situations, institutions and people, and offers graphic interpretations of their collective experience. Their individual stories are part of the larger history of interpreters, interpretation and interpretive readings, and they demonstrate how language intersects with race, class, gender and geopolitical inequalities. The book allows the unexpected to unfold, passing control from the writers to the reader, who will see connections and ruptures unfold between space, time and class while never losing sight of the materiality of living. Together and individually, the portraits tell a powerful story about the structure of contemporary society and the hierarchical distributions of power that permeate our lives.

About author(s):B.A.S.S. Meier-Lorente-Muth-Duchêne works in academia.