Where There Is Danger

Luba Jurgenson is Professor of Russian Literature and specializes in representations of mass violence in East and Central Europe. She also serves as Director of the research centre Eur’ORBEM at the Sorbonne and as an editorial board member for the journal Memories at Stake. Meredith Sopher studied French-English Translation and Interpretation at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey. She currently works as a freelance translator and interpreter in France.

“In the first essay of her collection Where There IsDanger, Luba Jurgenson writes, ‘Bilingualism is waiting for its chronicler,someone down-to-earth who follows each step of the bodily clues to theconstantly shifting center.’ As such a chronicler, she makes striking metaphorsof history, language, the body, and the diaspora, hoping to understand thestrange reality of being a citizen of two languages and their cultures. … Jurgenson’svoice sounds cohesive and aware, and she interrogates language to examine theorigins of thought and purpose. French and Russian have history embedded withintheir words, should someone care to parse it. In such acts of dissection andrevivification, Where There Is Danger is at its brightest.” —Camille-YvetteWelsch, Foreword Reviews