Brian Lennon

In Babel's Shadow

Multilingual Literatures, Monolingual States

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Minnesota Press
• Seitenzahl: 266
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Mai 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 380g
• ISBN-13: 9780816665020
• ISBN-10: 0816665028
• Artikelnr.: 28135686

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Antinomies of Literature
1. Language as Capital
2. Translation Being Between
3. Containment
4. Language Memoir and Language Death
5. The Other Other Literature Afterword: Unicode and Totality
Notes
Index