Postcolonial Literatures and Translational Readings

IF 0.1 4区社会学 Q4 CULTURAL STUDIES

Parallax Pub Date : 2022-01-02 DOI:10.1080/13534645.2022.2156690

S. Bertacco

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Abstract

The Poem-a-Day sent to my mailbox on 2 November 2021 is entitled ‘The Tower of Babel.’ It was written by Orlando Ricardo Menes, a CubanAmerican poet who emigrated to the US from Peru and offers a re-writing, via a Christian and multilingual prism, of the Beatitude series in Matthew’s Gospel, 5:5, which is itself a re-telling of Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount: not the powerful or the strong that are usually celebrated in this world, but the meek, the gentle, the weak will inherit God’s kingdom. In the poem, however, the ones being blessed are not people per se but the lost languages and dialects of those who have left their homelands and relocated elsewhere:

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2021年11月2日，我的邮箱收到了一封名为“巴别塔”的每日诗歌这本书由古巴裔美国诗人奥兰多·里卡多·梅内斯（Orlando Ricardo Menes）撰写，他从秘鲁移民到美国，通过基督教和多语言的棱镜，重新书写了马太福音5:5中的“美德”系列，这本身就是对耶稣在山上的宝训的复述：不是这个世界上通常庆祝的强大或强者，弱者将继承上帝的国。然而，在这首诗中，被祝福的不是人本身，而是那些离开家园搬到其他地方的人失去的语言和方言：

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