Description: Multilingual literature defies simple translation. Beginning with this insight, Brian Lennon examines the resistance multilingual literature offers to book publication itself. In readings of G. V. Desanis All about H. Hatterr, Anthony Burgesss A Clockwork Orange, Christine Brooke-Roses Between, Eva Hoffmans Lost in Translation, Emine Sevgi zdamars Mutterzunge, and Orhan Pamuks Istanbul, among other works, Lennon shows how nationalized literary print culture inverts the values of a transnational age, reminding us that works of literature are, above all, objects in motion.
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"In Babel's Shadow is at once an important contribution to translation studies, a pointed intervention in current debates on world literature, and a searching meditation on the politics of literary study today. Through incisive readings of a wide range of multilingual writers and critics, Brian Lennon brilliantly unfolds the challenges that 'strong plurilingualism' poses to readers, publishers, and critics alike. In Babel's Shadow will make sobering--and inspiring--reading for anyone interested in the politics of literature in a multilingual world." --David Damrosch, Harvard University