| In Babel's Shadow: Multilingual Literatures, Monolingual States Contributor(s): Lennon, Brian (Author) |
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ISBN: 0816665028 ISBN-13: 9780816665020 Publisher: University of Minnesota Press OUR PRICE: $27.72 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science - Literary Criticism | Books & Reading |
| Dewey: 810.9 |
| LCCN: 2009046765 |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.5" W x 8.4" (0.85 lbs) 256 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 zdamar'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. |