In Babel's Shadow: Multilingual Literatures, Monolingual States - Brossura

Lennon, Brian

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ISBN 10: 0816665028 ISBN 13: 9780816665020

Casa editrice: Univ of Minnesota Pr, 2010

Riassunto

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’sAll about H. Hatterr, Anthony Burgess’s A Clockwork Orange, Christine Brooke-Rose’sBetween, 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.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Brian Lennon is assistant professor of English and comparative literature at Pennsylvania State University.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Univ of Minnesota Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0816665028
• ISBN 13: 9780816665020
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 241