In Babel's Shadow

Multilingual Literatures, Monolingual States

By: Brian Lennon

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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.

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"In Babel's Shadow is at once an important contribution to translation studies, a pointed intervention in current debates on world literature, and a searching meditation on the politics of literary study today. Through incisive readings of a wide range of multilingual writers and critics, Brian Lennon brilliantly unfolds the challenges that 'strong plurilingualism' poses to readers, publishers, and critics alike. In Babel's Shadow will make sobering--and inspiring--reading for anyone interested in the politics of literature in a multilingual world." --David Damrosch, Harvard University

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Non-Fiction Industry & Industrial Studies Media, Entertainment, Information & Communication Industries Publishing Industry & Book Trade Literature, Poetry & Plays History & Criticism of Literature General Literary Studies Literary Studies from 1900 to Current Language & Linguistics Linguistics Psycholinguistics Bilingualism & Multilingualism

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Preface	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xix
Introduction: Antinomies of Literature	p. 1
Language as Capital	p. 27
Translation Being Between	p. 55
Containment	p. 93
Language Memoir and Language Death	p. 123
The Other Other Literature	p. 141
Afterword: Unicode and Totality	p. 167
Notes	p. 175
Index	p. 225
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Multilingual Literatures, Monolingual States

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