Nimble Tongues: Studies in Literary Translingualism

di Steven G. Kellman (Autore)

Purdue University Press, 2020

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.

• Autore: Steven G. Kellman
• Editore: Purdue University Press
• Collana: Comparative Cultural Studies
• Anno: 2020
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 214 p.
• Dimensioni: 229 x 152 mm
• Peso: 360 gr.
• EAN: 9781557538727

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