In Between Borders: Space, Gender, and Translation

This article unfolds the implications of Ricoeur's question, From where do you speak?, by exploring its epistemological and ethical stakes in dialogue with feminist and postcolonial theory and by taking seriously the spatial dimension of what could also be read as a provocation. As I suggest, the question asks us not only to find the place where one speaks, but to understand from where one can speak. I argue that the answer may be found in what writer Léonora Miano has described as inhabiting the border, an idea that we can articulate more fully through Ricoeur's ethics of translation.