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In Babel's shadow : multilingual literatures, monolingual states / Brian Lennon.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lennon, Brian, 1971-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American literature--20th century--History and criticism--Theory, etc.
- American literature.
- Multilingualism and literature.
- Literature publishing--United States.
- Literature publishing.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (265 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Language as Capital
- Translation being between
- Containment
- Language memoir and language death
- The other other literature.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-4529-4634-5
- 0-8166-7353-5
- OCLC:
- 646066582
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