Multilingual Literature as World Literature

Jane Hiddleston is Professor of Literatures in French at the University of Oxford, UK. Her previous books include Writing After Postcolonialism: Francophone North African Literature in Transition (Bloomsbury, 2017), Understanding Postcolonialism (2009) and Postructuralism and Postcoloniality (2010).Wen-chin Ouyang is Professor of Arabic and Comparative Literature at SOAS, University of London, UK. She is the author of Politics of Nostalgia in the Arabic Novel (2013), Poetics of Love in the Arabic Novel (2012) and Literary Criticism in Medieval Arabic-Islamic Culture: The Making of a Tradition (1997).

This illuminating collection urges us to adopt a strikingly different framework as we explore the moments of connection and enmeshing between languages which allow ideas, forms and aesthetics to circulate across languages, cultures and societies. For researchers of translation studies in particular, this approach will be richly rewarding.

• List of FiguresNotes on ContributorsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Multilingual literature as world literature (Jane Hiddleston, Exeter College, University of Oxford, UK, and Wen-chin Ouyang, SOAS, University of London, UK) Part I Multilingualism and modes of reading1. Writing in the presence of the languages of the world: Language, literature and world in Édouard Glissant’s late theoretical works (Jane Hiddleston, Exeter College, University of Oxford, UK)2. (Sino)graphs in Franco(n)texts: The multilingual and the multimodal in Franco-Chinese literature and visual arts (Shuangyi Li, Lund University, Sweden)3. A 'boundless creative ferocity': The Souffles generation, Moroccan poetry and visual art in dialogue (Khalid Lyamlahy, University of Chicago, USA)4. The heterolingual zone: Arabic, English and the practice of worldliness (Claire Gallien, University Paul Valéry Montpellier 3 and CNRS, France)Part II A multilingual ecology of world literature and modes of circulation 5. 'O local sen paredes': The multilingual ecology of Manuel Rivas’s A desaparición da neve (The Disappearance of Snow) (Laura Lonsdale, The Queen’s College, University of Oxford, UK)6. Monolingualizing the multilingual Ottoman novel: Ahmet Midhat Efendi’s Felatun Bey ile Rakim Efendi (Keya Anjaria, SOAS, University of London, UK)7. Thinking in French and writing in Spanish: Rubén Darío’s multilingualism (Carlos F. Grigsby, University of Oxford, UK)8. Multilingual maelström: Re-reading Primo Levi’s 'Canto of Ulysses' (Dominique Jullien, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA)Part III Multilingual comparative reading: Beyond translation and untranslatability9. Ghetto, Nakba, Holocaust: New terms (of relationship) in Elias Khoury’s Awlad al-Ghitu (Nora Parr, SOAS, University of London, UK)10. Multilingual others: Transliteration as resistant translation (Dima Ayoub, Middlebury College, USA)11. Hauntological versions in Isabel del Río’s bilingual Zero Negative/Cero Negativo (Ellen Jones, Independent Scholar and Translator, UK)12. transition, untranslatability and the 'Revolution of the Word' (Juliette Taylor-Batty, Leeds Trinity University, UK)Part IV Multilingual poetics of world literature13. How each sound becomes world (yasser elhariry, Dartmouth College, USA)14. Vahni Capildeo’s multilingual poetics: Translation, synaesthesia, relation (Rachael Gilmour, University of London, UK)15. 'Le mystère de notre présence au monde': Monchoachi, Creole proverbs and world literature as restoration (Christopher Monier, University of Oxford, UK)16. Configurations of multilingualism and world literature (Wen-chin Ouyang, SOAS, University of London, UK)Index