In Babel's Shadow: Multilingual Literatures, Monolingual States
Brian Lennon
Abstract
Multilingual literature defies simple translation. Beginning with this insight, this book 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, this book 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 ... More
Keywords: multilingual literature, G. V. Desani, Anthony Burgess, Christine Brooke-Rose, Eva Hoffman, Emine Sevgi Özdamar, Orhan Pamuk, literary journalism, criticism
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2010 | Print ISBN-13: 9780816665013 |
| Published to Minnesota Scholarship Online: August 2015 | DOI:10.5749/minnesota/9780816665013.001.0001 |
