Nimble Tongues

Steven G. Kellman is author of The RestlessIlan Stavans: Outsider on the Inside (Purdue); Redemption: The Life ofHenry Roth (Norton); The Translingual Imagination (Nebraska); ThePlague: Fiction and Resistance (Twayne); Loving Reading: Erotics of theText (Archon); and The Self‑Begetting Novel (Columbia). He edited SwitchingLanguages: Translingual Writers Reflect on Their Craft (Nebraska); UnderWords:Perspectives on DeLillo's Underworld (Delaware); Torpid Smoke: Storiesof Vladimir Nabokov (Rodopi); and Leslie Fiedler and American Culture(Delaware). A widely published critic and essayist, Kellman served four terms on the board of directors of the National Book Critics Circle and received itscoveted Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing. He has taught atTel-Aviv University, the University of California campuses at Irvine and Berkeley, Tbilisi State University, and the University of Sofia. He is professor of comparative literature at the University of Texas at San Antonio.

• PrefaceDoes Translingualism Matter?Writer Speaks with Forked Tongue: Interlingual PredicamentsPromiscuous Tongues: Erotics of Translingualism and TranslationWriting South and North: Ariel Dorfman's Linguistic AmbidexterityAlien Autographs: How Translators Make Their MarksTranslingual Memoirs of the New: American ImmigrationIncubus and the Esperanto Movie IndustryAn Italian in English: The Translingual Case of Francesca MarcianoHugo Hamilton's Language WarJhumpa Lahiri Goes ItalianLinguaphobia and Its Resistance in AmericaOmnilingual Aspirations: The Case of the Universal Declaration of Human RightsGlossaryWorks CitedIndex