Multilingual Currents in Literature, Translation and Culture / Edition 1

by Rachael Gilmour, Tamar Steinitz

Overview

This book shows how concepts of ‘language’ and ‘multilingualism’ look different when viewed from varied locations, and asks how ideas about literature and literary form must be remade in a contemporary cultural marketplace that is both linguistically diverse and interconnected. Scholars of literary studies, applied linguistics, publishing, and translation studies investigate how multilingual realities shape modes of literary and cultural production. Essays explore literary multilingualism and its relationship to publishing, translation, and canon-formation, considering how literature can be read in relation to other multilingual and translational forms of contemporary cultural circulation.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781138120532
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	08/25/2017
Series:	Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature
Pages:	240
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Rachael Gilmour is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English at Queen Mary, University of London, UK.

Tamar Steinitz is Lecturer in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Introduction

Rachael Gilmour and Tamar Steinitz

Chapter 2: Writer Speaks with Forked Tongue: Interlingual Predicaments

Steven G. Kellman

Chapter 3: The Worlds of Québec: On Post-Bilingualism, Multidirectionality, and Other Critical Detours

Christopher Larkosh

Chapter 4: Narrating the Polyphonic City: Translation and Identity in Translingual/Transcultural Writing

Rita Wilson

Chapter 5: "Ah’m the man ae a thoosand tongues": Multilingual Scottishness and its Limits

Rachael Gilmour

Chapter 6: Language Choices in Belizean Literature: The Politics of Language in Transnational Caribbean Space

Britta Schneider

Chapter 7: We Need New Names: Novel and Reading Publics as Conduits for Producing Contradictions

Carli Coetzee

Chapter 8: Translation as a Motor of Critique and Invention in Contemporary Literature: The Case of Xiaolu Guo

Fiona Doloughan

Chapter 9: Literary Adventures in Francophone Afropea: Léonora Miano and Music as a Language of Afro-Diasporic Subjectivity

Polo Belina Moji

Chapter 10: Translation and the Multilingual Text: Defining a Public

Moradewun Adejunmobi

Chapter 11: Afterword

Paul F. Bandia

Notes on Contributors