{"product_id":"in-babels-shadow-9780816665020","title":"In Babels Shadow","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eIn Babel’s Shadow\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003ci\u003eIn Babel’s Shadow\u003c\/i\u003e will make sobering—and inspiring—reading for anyone interested in the politics of literature in a multilingual world.\" —David Damrosch, Harvard University\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface, Acknowledgments, Introduction: Antinomies of Literature, 1. Language as Capital, 2. Translation Being Between, 3. Containment, 4. Language Memoir and Language Death, 5. The Other Other Literature Afterword: Unicode and Totality, Notes, Index","brand":"University of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405962289495,"sku":"9780816665020","price":19.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780816665020.jpg?v=1730494059","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/in-babels-shadow-9780816665020","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}