International Perspectives on Multilingual Literatures: From Translingualism to Language Mixing (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781527560178)

This carefully curated collection of essays charts interactions between majority languages (including English, French, German, Italian and Japanese) and minority dialects or languages pushed to the margins (including Arabic, Bengali, Esperanto, Neapolitan and Welsh) through a series of case studies of leading modern and contemporary cultural producers. The contributors, who work and study across the globe, extend critical understanding of literary multilingualism to the subjects of migration and the exophonic, self-translation and the aesthetics of interlinguistic bricolage, language death and language perseveration, and power in linguistic hierarchies in (post-)colonial contexts. Their subjects include the authors Julia Alvarez, Elena Ferrante, Jonathan Franzen, AmÃ(c)lie Nothomb, Ali Smith, Yoko Tawada, and Dylan Thomas, the film-maker Ulrike Ottinger, and the anonymous performers of Griko. The volume will be of interest to students of creative writing, literature, translation, and sociolinguistics.

Author: Katie Jones
ISBN-10: 1527560171
ISBN-13: 9781527560178
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Language: English
Published: 11/24/2020
Pages: 319
Format: Hardcover