{"product_id":"nimble-tongues-steven-g-kellman-9781557538727","title":"Nimble Tongues: Studies in Literary Translingualism","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eNimble Tongues\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eExtraterritorial: Papers on Literature and the Language Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e or Umberto Eco's \u003ci\u003eTravels in Hyperreality\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTopics 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Steven G. Kellman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1557538727\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781557538727\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Purdue University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/15\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 214\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.80lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.60d","brand":"Steven G. Kellman","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43980090310911,"sku":"9781557538727","price":44.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_70c04949-97cd-4abe-80f4-887e4f5b4bd3.jpg?v=1683248332","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/nimble-tongues-steven-g-kellman-9781557538727","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}