Nimble Tongues
eBook - ePub

Nimble Tongues

Studies in Literary Translingualism

  1. 214 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Nimble Tongues

Studies in Literary Translingualism

About this book

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.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Halftitle Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Contents
  6. Preface
  7. Does Translingualism Matter?
  8. Writer Speaks with Forked Tongue: Interlingual Predicaments
  9. Promiscuous Tongues: Erotics of Translingualism and Translation
  10. Writing South and North: Ariel Dorfman’s Linguistic Ambidexterity
  11. Alien Autographs: How Translators Make Their Marks
  12. Translingual Memoirs of the New American Immigration
  13. Incubus and the Esperanto Movie Industry
  14. An Italian in English: The Translingual Case of Francesca Marciano
  15. Hugo Hamilton’s Language War
  16. Jhumpa Lahiri Goes Italian
  17. Linguaphobia and Its Resistance in America
  18. Omnilingual Aspirations: The Case of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
  19. Glossary
  20. Works Cited
  21. Index
  22. About the Author