Translation practice

Today you will receive a small excerpt in English to practice your translation skills. Tomorrow, we will send the answer keys and some comments about this text. Try to do the translation with your own words before consulting the dictionary.

“In the tumultuous world that we live in today, with conflicts abounding in race, religion, nationality, gender preference, among others, to truly understand how to face and tackle such thorny issues, we must first delve into the mire of the roots of the conflicts. Few, if any, movements in America have had such a profound impact upon society as the evolution of African-American thought from the late 19th century to the present day. Though the African-American community existed in America long before the 19th century, especially in its most horrendous form of slavery, it was not until the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th centuries that the existence of this race within American society finally began to take shape and deeply root itself in the construction of an American pluralist identity, also known as a ‘melting pot.’ In this light, as a result of this wondrous cultural and existential evolution, African-American women writers took the stage as the embodiment of a new perspective of the existence and importance of the African-American, both male and female, within the larger whole of American identity.”

Todd Irwin Marshall, “African American Women Writers in the Post-Harlem Renaissance”, Revista Sapientia, 2015.