| Description |
1 online resource. |
| Series |
Literature now |
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Literature now.
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| Note |
Description based on print version record. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: Theory of world literature now -- Close reading at a distance -- The series, the list, and the clone -- Sampling, collating, and counting -- This is not your language -- Born translated and born digital -- Epilogue: Multiples. |
| Summary |
As a growing number of contemporary novelists write explicitly for publication in multiple languages, the genre's form and aims are shifting. Born-translated novels include passages that appear to be written in different tongues, narrators who speak to foreign audiences, and other visual and formal techniques that treat translation as a medium rather than an afterthought. These strategies challenge the global dominance of English, complicate #x93;native" readership, and protect creative works against misinterpretation as they circulate. They have also given rise to a new form of writing that confounds traditional models of literary history and political community. Born Translated builds a much-needed framework for reading translation's effect on fictional works, as well as digital art, avant-garde magazines, literary anthologies, and visual media. Artists and novelists discussed include J. M. Coetzee, Junot Diaz, Jonathan Safran Foer, Mohsin Hamid, Kazuo Ishiguro, Jamaica Kincaid, Ben Lerner, China Miéville, David Mitchell, Walter Mosley, Caryl Phillips, Adam Thirlwell, Young-hae Chang Heavy Industries, and Amy Waldman. The book understands that contemporary literature begins at once in many places, engaging in a new type of social embeddedness and political solidarity. It recasts literary history as a series of convergences and departures and, by elevating the status of #x93;born-translated" works, redefines common conceptions of author, reader, and nation. |
| Processing Action |
ebrary DDA purchase 20160111 nsh UPB |
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Literature -- Translations -- History and criticism.
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Fiction -- Translations -- History and criticism.
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Translating and interpreting.
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Fiction. (OCoLC)fst00923709
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Literature -- Translations.
(OCoLC)fst01000046
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Translating and interpreting. (OCoLC)fst01154795
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FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / Multi-Language Phrasebooks
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Alphabets & Writing Systems
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Grammar & Punctuation
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Readers
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Spelling
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| Genre/Form |
Translations. (OCoLC)fst01423791
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Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 9780231165945 0231165943 (DLC) 2014036138 |
| ISBN |
0231539452 electronic bk. |
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9780231539456 electronic bk. |
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