Voices in Transit: Identity Construction and the Ethics of Visibility in Post-Colonial Translation Author: Yanka Costa Affiliation: Department of Translation Studies & Intercultural Communication

She looked at her hand. The twisted claw had relaxed. The bones had realigned. The meteorite dust, she realized, had not been a curse. It had been a sponge. For seventy years, she had absorbed the sea's rage, the sky's fury, the planet's fever. And now, the sponge was full. The Great One had been her storm, the one she had been holding back her entire life. By letting it come, she had finally set herself free.

Translation Studies, Identity Politics, Post-Colonialism, Lusophone Studies, Translator’s Invisibility.