Il libro This Is What I Live For ha ricevuto il premio Lois Roth Award da parte della Modern Language Association. Ringrazio infinitamente le professoresse Donatella Melucci e Clarissa Clò per aver creduto nel progetto.
«This Is What I Live For, by Amir Issaa (a pioneering Afro-Italian hip-hop artist and antiracism advocate), is the living, vibrating fulcrum around which a bilingual edition celebrates the joys of collaboration and community building across continents, people, and disciplines. A tribute to and an embodiment of transformative translation pedagogy, This Is What I Live For started as a hands-on student project in an Italian translation course at Georgetown University. Enriched by a prelude by the author, personal photos, and essays on the significance of the text, the history of hip-hop, and the author’s interactions with American students; on the collaborative translation process, led by Clarissa Clò and Donatella Melucci; and on the power of hip-hop to engender and power new conversations among diasporas, This Is What I Live For is exemplary in its freestyle remix of leaning into the impossible in life, in the arts, and in teaching.»
