Steven G. Kellman

Nimble Tongues

Studies in Literary Translingualism

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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 feat… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-61249-601-6
EAN: 9781612496016
Produktnummer: 33634493
Verlag: Purdue University Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
Seitenangabe: 214 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 719 KB

Über den Autor

Steven G. Kellman is author of The RestlessIlan Stavans: Outsider on the Inside (Purdue); Redemption: The Life ofHenry Roth (Norton); The Translingual Imagination (Nebraska); ThePlague: Fiction and Resistance (Twayne); Loving Reading: Erotics of theText (Archon); and The Self-Begetting Novel (Columbia). He edited SwitchingLanguages: Translingual Writers Reflect on Their Craft (Nebraska); UnderWords:Perspectives on DeLillo's Underworld (Delaware); Torpid Smoke: Storiesof Vladimir Nabokov (Rodopi); and Leslie Fiedler and American Culture(Delaware). A widely published critic and essayist, Kellman served four termson the board of directors of the National Book Critics Circle and received itscoveted Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing. He has taught atTel-Aviv University, the University of California campuses at Irvine andBerkeley, Tbilisi State University, and the University of Sofia. He isprofessor of comparative literature at the University of Texas at San Antonio.