Conquering Love: Failed Xenophilia in Translations PDF
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DOI 10.1215/0961754X-8521507
" Elizabeth Bishop’s “Questions of Travel” is the eponymous poem in a 1965 col- lection for her lover, the renowned Brazilian architect Lota de Macedo Soares, expressing the inexorable human desire to travel to other hemispheres. The innate or “childish” drive that Bishop depicts, the thoughtless “rush” toward an unattainable desire to see the far away, is how I view xenophilia: a desire for the foreign. I would like, here, to bring Bishop’s affectionate yet skeptical view of xenophilia to a reading of Brian Friel’s 1980 play Translations, because his play, like her poem, shows how it may be impossible to satisfy that childish rush, given that there always will be new foreign places to visit and that we will never “see the sun the other way around,” anywhere on earth. Both works understand xenophilia as quintessentially human yet doomed to fail."
" Elizabeth Bishop’s “Questions of Travel” is the eponymous poem in a 1965 col- lection for her lover, the renowned Brazilian architect Lota de Macedo Soares, expressing the inexorable human desire to travel to other hemispheres. The innate or “childish” drive that Bishop depicts, the thoughtless “rush” toward an unattainable desire to see the far away, is how I view xenophilia: a desire for the foreign. I would like, here, to bring Bishop’s affectionate yet skeptical view of xenophilia to a reading of Brian Friel’s 1980 play Translations, because his play, like her poem, shows how it may be impossible to satisfy that childish rush, given that there always will be new foreign places to visit and that we will never “see the sun the other way around,” anywhere on earth. Both works understand xenophilia as quintessentially human yet doomed to fail."
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