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.
Table des matières
Preface
Does Translingualism Matter?
Writer Speaks with Forked Tongue: Interlingual Predicaments
Promiscuous Tongues: Erotics of Translingualism and Translation
Writing South and North: Ariel Dorfman’s Linguistic Ambidexterity
Alien Autographs: How Translators Make Their Marks
Translingual Memoirs of the New: American Immigration
Incubus and the Esperanto Movie Industry
An Italian in English: The Translingual Case of Francesca Marciano
Hugo Hamilton’s Language War
Jhumpa Lahiri Goes Italian
Linguaphobia and Its Resistance in America
Omnilingual Aspirations: The Case of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Glossary
Works Cited
Index
A propos de l’auteur
Steven G. Kellman is author of
The Restless Ilan Stavans: Outsider on the Inside (Purdue);
Redemption: The Life of Henry Roth (Norton);
The Translingual Imagination (Nebraska);
The Plague: Fiction and Resistance (Twayne);
Loving Reading: Erotics of the Text (Archon); and
The Self‑Begetting Novel (Columbia). He edited
Switching Languages: Translingual Writers Reflect on Their Craft (Nebraska);
Under Words: Perspectives on De Lillo’s Underworld (Delaware);
Torpid Smoke: Stories of Vladimir Nabokov (Rodopi); and
Leslie Fiedler and American Culture (Delaware). A widely published critic and essayist, Kellman served four terms on the board of directors of the National Book Critics Circle and received its coveted Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing. He has taught at Tel-Aviv University, the University of California campuses at Irvine and Berkeley, Tbilisi State University, and the University of Sofia. He is professor of comparative literature at the University of Texas at San Antonio.
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