{"product_id":"in-babels-shadow-multilingual-literatures-monolingual-states-paperback-softback-9780816665020","title":"In Babel's Shadow; Multilingual Literatures, Monolingual States (Paperback \/ softback) 9780816665020","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eIn Babel's Shadow\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eMultilingual Literatures, Monolingual States\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eBrian Lennon (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780816665020\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 19 May 2010\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e256 pages\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 1.8 cm, 0.338 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eIn Babel’s Shadow\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003ci\u003eIn Babel’s Shadow\u003c\/i\u003e will make sobering-and inspiring-reading for anyone interested in the politics of literature in a multilingual world.\" -David Damrosch, Harvard University\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eMultilingual 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 \u003ci\u003eAll about H. Hatterr\u003c\/i\u003e, Anthony Burgess’s \u003ci\u003eA Clockwork Orange\u003c\/i\u003e, Christine Brooke-Rose’s \u003ci\u003eBetween\u003c\/i\u003e, Eva Hoffman’s \u003ci\u003eLost in Translation\u003c\/i\u003e, Emine Sevgi \u0026amp;Ouml;zdamar’s \u003ci\u003eMutterzunge\u003c\/i\u003e, and Orhan Pamuk’s \u003ci\u003eIstanbul\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eLooking closely at the limit of both multilingual literary expression and the literary journalism, criticism, and scholarship that comments on multilingual work, \u003ci\u003eIn Babel’s Shadow\u003c\/i\u003e presents a critical reflection on the fate of literature in a world gripped by the crisis of globalization.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePreface, Acknowledgments, Introduction: Antinomies of Literature, 1. Language as Capital, 2. Translation Being Between, 3. Containment, 4. Language Memoir and Language Death, 5. The Other Other Literature Afterword: Unicode and Totality, Notes, Index\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Univ Of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52570071957784,"sku":"9780816665020","price":17.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/in-babels-shadow-multilingual-literatures-monolingual-states-paperback-softback-9780816665020","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}