{"product_id":"nimble-tongues-studies-in-literary-translingualism-9781557538727","title":"Nimble Tongues: Studies in Literary","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNimble Tongues\u003c\/i\u003e is a collection of essays that continues Steven G. Kellman's work in the fertile field of translingualism, focusing on the phenomenon of switching languages. A series of investigations and reflections rather than a single thesis, the collection is perhaps more akin in its aims—if not accomplishment—to George Steiner’s \u003ci\u003eExtraterritorial: Papers on Literature and the Language Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e or Umberto Eco’s \u003ci\u003eTravels in Hyperreality\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTopics covered include the significance of translingualism; translation and its challenges; immigrant memoirs; the autobiographies that Ariel Dorfman wrote in English and Spanish, respectively; the only feature film ever made in Esperanto; Francesca Marciano, an Italian who writes in English; Jhumpa Lahiri, who has abandoned English for Italian; Ilan Stavans, a prominent translingual author and scholar; Hugo Hamilton, a writer who grew up torn among Irish, German, and English; Antonio Ruiz-Camacho, a Mexican who writes in English; and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as a multilingual text.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePreface\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDoes Translingualism Matter?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWriter Speaks with Forked Tongue: Interlingual Predicaments\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePromiscuous Tongues: Erotics of Translingualism and Translation\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWriting South and North: Ariel Dorfman's Linguistic Ambidexterity\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAlien Autographs: How Translators Make Their Marks\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTranslingual Memoirs of the New: American Immigration\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eIncubus\u003c\/i\u003e and the Esperanto Movie Industry\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAn Italian in English: The Translingual Case of Francesca Marciano\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHugo Hamilton's Language War\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJhumpa Lahiri Goes Italian\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLinguaphobia and Its Resistance in America\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOmnilingual Aspirations: The Case of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGlossary\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWorks Cited\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIndex\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Purdue University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51535277654359,"sku":"9781557538727","price":33.11,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781557538727.jpg?v=1755860365","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/nimble-tongues-studies-in-literary-translingualism-9781557538727","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}