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Monolingualism is bad; literature is good right?

For many of us monolingualism is associated with closed-mindedness, political nationalism, and a general hostility to diverse knowledges and experiences of the world. In contrast, literature continues to stand allegedly unbeholden, as a symbolic beacon for expansive human expression and insight making meaning astride Earth's thousands of human languages.

But what if this division of virtue and vice isn't quite right, leading us to overlook the uninterrupted historical and aesthetic collusion between political monolingualism and literary novels today? What if novels made in a European mold tend to be much more indebted to monolingual structures, ideologies, and styles than their publishers, and even their critics, care to acknowledge?

Instead of whistling past such a discomfort, Literature in Late Monolingualism recognizes it squarely detailing the important ways in which many authors of cont

Literature in Late Monolingualism

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      Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 12/12/2024
      ISBN13: 9798765113912, 979-8765113912
      ISBN10: 9798765113912
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Monolingualism is bad; literature is good right?

      For many of us monolingualism is associated with closed-mindedness, political nationalism, and a general hostility to diverse knowledges and experiences of the world. In contrast, literature continues to stand allegedly unbeholden, as a symbolic beacon for expansive human expression and insight making meaning astride Earth's thousands of human languages.

      But what if this division of virtue and vice isn't quite right, leading us to overlook the uninterrupted historical and aesthetic collusion between political monolingualism and literary novels today? What if novels made in a European mold tend to be much more indebted to monolingual structures, ideologies, and styles than their publishers, and even their critics, care to acknowledge?

      Instead of whistling past such a discomfort, Literature in Late Monolingualism recognizes it squarely detailing the important ways in which many authors of cont

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