Nimble Tongues: Studies in Literary Translingualism Contributor(s): Kellman, Steven G. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1557538727 ISBN-13: 9781557538727 Publisher: Purdue University Press OUR PRICE: $44.54 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 2020 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Language Arts & Disciplines | Linguistics - Sociolinguistics - Literary Criticism | Semiotics & Theory - Literary Criticism | Comparative Literature |
Dewey: 404.2 |
LCCN: 2019029010 |
Series: Comparative Cultural Studies |
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.9" W x 8.9" (0.80 lbs) 214 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Nimble Tongues is a collection of essays that continues Steven G. Kellman's work in the fertile field of translingualism, focusing on the phenomenon of switching languages. A series of investigations and reflections rather than a single thesis, the collection is perhaps more akin in its aims--if not accomplishment--to George Steiner's Extraterritorial: Papers on Literature and the Language Revolution or Umberto Eco's Travels in Hyperreality. Topics covered include the significance of translingualism; translation and its challenges; immigrant memoirs; the autobiographies that Ariel Dorfman wrote in English and Spanish, respectively; the only feature film ever made in Esperanto; Francesca Marciano, an Italian who writes in English; Jhumpa Lahiri, who has abandoned English for Italian; Ilan Stavans, a prominent translingual author and scholar; Hugo Hamilton, a writer who grew up torn among Irish, German, and English; Antonio Ruiz-Camacho, a Mexican who writes in English; and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as a multilingual text. |