Born Translated: The Contemporary Novel in an Age of World Literature
Rebecca Walkowitz
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Description for Born Translated: The Contemporary Novel in an Age of World Literature
Hardback. Series: Literature Now. Num Pages: 336 pages, 25 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 163 x 26. Weight in Grams: 588.
As a growing number of contemporary novelists write 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 as an afterthought. These strategies challenge the global dominance of English, complicate 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 ... Read more
As a growing number of contemporary novelists write 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 as an afterthought. These strategies challenge the global dominance of English, complicate 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Series
Literature Now
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231165945
SKU
V9780231165945
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About Rebecca Walkowitz
Rebecca L. Walkowitz is professor and director of graduate studies in English and affiliate faculty in comparative literature at Rutgers University. She is the author of Cosmopolitan Style: Modernism Beyond the Nation (2006) and the editor or coeditor of several books, including A New Vocabulary for Global Modernism (2016, with Eric Hayot). She is the past president of the Modernist ... Read more
Reviews for Born Translated: The Contemporary Novel in an Age of World Literature
A work of resounding insight and unremitting freshness, Born Translated matter-of-factly deconstructs the assumption that national belonging is natural to literature, showing how this assumption structures the sense we make of contemporary world fiction and how much more sense that fiction makes without it.
Bruce Robbins, Columbia University Erudite and meticulous, with a comfort zone extending from Cervantes to ... Read more
Bruce Robbins, Columbia University Erudite and meticulous, with a comfort zone extending from Cervantes to ... Read more