The translingual imagination / Steven G. Kellman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kellman, Steven G., 1947-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Multilingualism and literature.

Language and culture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (222 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

It is difficult to write well even in one language. Yet a rich body of translingual literature-by authors who write in more than one language or in a language other than their primary one-exists. The Translingual Imagination is a pioneering study of the phenomenon, which is as ancient as the use of Arabic, Latin, Mandarin, Persian, and Sanskrit as linguae francae. Colonialism, war, mobility, and the aesthetics of alienation have combined to create a modern translingual canon. Opening with an overview of this vast subject, Steven G. Kellman then looks at the differences between ambilinguals-tho

Contents:

Front Cover; Front Flap; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; 1. Translingualism and the Literary Imagination; 2. Pourquoi Translingual?; 3. Translingual Africa; 4. Coetzee Reads Beckett; 5. Nabokov and the Psychomorphology of Zemblan; 6. Eva Hoffman Lost in the Promised Land; 7. Begley Joins the Firm; 8. Sayles Goes Spanish; Epilogue; A Roster of Translingual Authors; Works Cited; Index; Back Flap; Back Cover

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [119]-125 ) and index.

ISBN:

9780803274471

0803274475

9780803219182

0803219180

OCLC:

887504665