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Challenging the Myth of Monolingualism.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Minnaard, Liesbeth.
- Series:
- Thamyris/Intersecting: Place, Sex and Race 28.
- Thamyris/Intersecting: Place, Sex and Race
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Multilingualism.
- Multilingualism and literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (200 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden : BRILL, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This volume explores literary negotiations of and challenges to this powerful myth of monolingualism in various, mostly West-European cultural contexts.
- Contents:
- Preliminary material / Editors Challenging the Myth of Monolingualism
- Introduction: How to Challenge the Myth of Monolingualism? / Liesbeth Minnaard and Till Dembeck
- Getting up onto Monolingualism: Barthes, Kafka, Myth / David Gramling
- A Case of ‘Fake Monolingualism’: Morocco, Diglossia and the Writer / Fouad Laroui
- Moroccan Literature: A Monster Yet To Be Born? A Response to Fouad Laroui / Madeleine Kasten
- Philology’s Jargon: How Can We Write Post-Monolingually? / Till Dembeck and Georg Mein
- Monolingualism, Heterolingualism, and Poetic Innovation: On Contemporary German Literature, with a Side Glance to the Seventeenth Century / Esther Kilchmann
- mi have een droom / Ramsey Nasr
- About Being Representative: Ramsey Nasr’s Poetic Performances as Antwerp City Poet and Dutch Poet Laureate / Liesbeth Minnaard
- Eèchtenteèchtig / Chika Unigwe
- “Bearing Gifts of Words”: Multilingualism in the Fiction of Flemish-Nigerian Writer Chika Unigwe / Elisabeth Bekers
- Brussels is Europe: Koen Peeters’ Grote Europese Roman as Multilingual Literature / Thomas Ernst
- The Barbarism(s) of Multilingualism: Outweirding the Mainstream in Guillermo Gómez-Peña’s Performance Literature / Maria Boletsi
- The Script of a Turtle or the Problem of Translation / Yoko Tawada
- The Bones of Translation: Yoko Tawada’s Translational Poetics / Bettina Brandt
- Contributors / Editors Challenging the Myth of Monolingualism
- Index / Editors Challenging the Myth of Monolingualism.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- ISBN:
- 94-012-1098-5
- OCLC:
- 911001836
- Publisher Number:
- 10.1163/9789401210980 DOI
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