Description
It is difficult to write well even in one language. Yet a rich body of translingual literatureby authors who write in more than one language or in a language other than their primary oneexists. TheTranslingual Imagination is a pioneering study of the phenomenon, which is as ancient as the use of Arabic, Latin, Mandarin, Persian, and Sanskrit as linguae francae. Colonialism, war, mobility, and the aesthetics of alienation have combined to create a modern translingual canon.
Opening with an overview of this vast subject, Steven G. Kellman then looks at the differences between ambilingualsthose who write authoritatively in more than one languageand monolingual translingualsthose who write in only one language but not their native one. Kellman offers compelling analyses of the translingual situations of African and Jewish authors and of achievements by authors as varied as Antin, Beckett, Begley, Coetzee, Conrad, Hoffman, Nabokov, and Sayles. While separate studies of individual translingual authors have long been available, this is the first in-depth study of the general phenomenon of translingual literature.
ASIN: 0803227450
VSKU: BVV.0803227450.G
Condition: Good
Author/Artist:Kellman, Steven G.
Binding: Hardcover
Note: Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.
Condition Notes: Missing dust cover, otherwise book is in good condition with some wear from normal use.
ASIN: 0803227450
VSKU: BVV.0803227450.G
Condition: Good
Author/Artist:Kellman, Steven G.
Binding: Hardcover
Note: Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.
Condition Notes: Missing dust cover, otherwise book is in good condition with some wear from normal use.