Henri Meschonnic in the United States? A Case of Non-Translation
Up until 2011, none of Henri Meschonnic’s many book-length essayshad been translated into English. Why? To find an answer, we must firstunderstand the interest of translators in two of Meschonnic’scontemporaries, namely Antoine Berman and Jacques Derrida. It appearsthat there are incentives to import intellectual goods when they canstrengthen a discipline and if there is interest in their potential forinterpretation.