Buch, Englisch, 272 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm
Reihe: Literature Now
Buch, Englisch, 272 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm
Reihe: Literature Now
ISBN: 978-0-231-20303-6
Verlag: Columbia University Press
In Literature in Motion, Ellen Jones offers a new framework for understanding literary multilingualism, emphasizing how authors and translators can use its defamiliarizing and disruptive potential to resist conventions of form and dominant narratives about language and gender. Examining the connection between translation and multilingualism in contemporary literature, she considers its significance for the theory, practice, and publishing of literature in translation. Jones argues that translation does not conflict with multilingual writing’s subversive potential. Instead, we can understand multilingualism and translation as closely intertwined creative strategies through which other forms of textual and conceptual hybridity, fluidity, and disruption are explored.
Jones addresses both well-known and understudied writers from across the American hemisphere who explore the spaces between languages as well as genders, genres, and textual versions, reading their work alongside their translations. She focuses on U.S. Latinx authors Susana Chávez-Silverman, Junot Díaz, and Giannina Braschi, who write in different forms of “Spanglish,” as well as the Brazilian writer Wilson Bueno, who combines Portuguese and Spanish, or “Portunhol,” with the indigenous language Guarani, and whose writing is rendered into “Frenglish” by Canadian translator Erín Moure.
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- Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Übersetzung, Editionstechnik
- Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Mehrsprachigkeit
- Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Romanische Literaturen Lateinamerikanische Literaturen, Spanische Literatur außerhalb Europas
- Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Übersetzungswissenschaft, Translatologie, Dolmetschen
- Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen
- Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur