In Babel's Shadow Multilingual Literatures, Monolingual States
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Multilingual literature defies simple translation. Beginning with this insight, Brian Lennon examines the resistance multilingual literature offers to book publication itself. In readings of G. V. Desani's All about H. Hatterr, Anthony Burgess's A Clockwork Orange, Christine Brooke-Rose's Between, Eva Hoffman's Lost in Translation, Emine Sevgi Özdamar's Mutterzunge, and Orhan Pamuk's Istanbul, among other works, Lennon shows how nationalized literary print culture inverts the values of a transnational age, reminding us that works of literature are, above all, objects in motion.
Looking closely at the limit of both multilingual literary expression and the literary journalism, criticism, and scholarship that comments on multilingual work, In Babel's Shadow presents a critical reflection on the fate of literature in a world gripped by the crisis of globalization.
Book information
ISBN: | 9780816665020 |
Publisher: | University of Minnesota Press |
Imprint: | University of Minnesota Press |
Pub date: | 19 May 2010 |
DEWEY: | 809.9334 |
DEWEY edition: | 22 |
Language: | English |
Number of pages: | 256 |
Weight: | 378g |
Height: | 143mm |
Width: | 219mm |
Spine width: | 15mm |