Nimble Tongues : Studies in Literary Translingualism Paperback / softback
by Steven G. Kellman
Part of the Comparative Cultural Studies series
Paperback / softback
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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.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:214 pages
- Publisher:Purdue University Press
- Publication Date:28/02/2020
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- ISBN:9781557538727
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:214 pages
- Publisher:Purdue University Press
- Publication Date:28/02/2020
- Category:
- ISBN:9781557538727
