Translating Modern Greek poetry of the 2008 financial crisis

Since Greece’s 2008 economic collapse, four poetry anthologies on the financial crisis have been published. Editors, translators, publishers, and writers involved in production sale of for an Anglophone market benefit from construction this new literary category – be it financially or terms acquiring consolidating cultural capital. However, these function within a language landscape which Greek English occupy different positions power. This article argues that although anthologies’ editors are largely conscious uneven power dynamic between English, some translation strategies adopted do not serve to create equal playing field two languages. The use poststructuralist approach is specifically critiqued, based assertion loses sight ethical complexity translating marginalized into dominant tongue.