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Dictionary of Untranslatables
A Philosophical Lexicon
Av Barbara Cassin, Emily Apter m. fl.
Inbunden, 2014
844 kr
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This is an encyclopedic dictionary of close to 400 important philosophical, literary, and political terms and concepts that defy easy--or any--translation from one language and culture to another. Drawn from more than a dozen languages, terms such as Dasein (German), pravda (Russian), saudade …
We, the People of Europe?
Reflections on Transnational Citizenship
Häftad, 2003
406 kr
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etienne Balibar has been one of Europe's most important philosophical and political thinkers since the 1960s. His work has been vastly influential on both sides of the Atlantic throughout the humanities and the social sciences. In We, the People of Europe?, he expands on themes raised in his …
Utopian Generations
The Political Horizon of Twentieth-Century Literature
Häftad, 2005
608 kr
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Utopian Generations develops a powerful interpretive matrix for understanding world literature--one that renders modernism and postcolonial African literature comprehensible in a single framework, within which neither will ever look the same. African literature has commonly been seen as …
Security
Politics, Humanity, and the Philology of Care
Inbunden, 2013
452 kr
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From national security and social security to homeland and cyber-security, "security" has become one of the most overused words in culture and politics today. Yet it also remains one of the most undefined. What exactly are we talking about when we talk about security? In this original and timely …
What Is World Literature?
Häftad, 2003
529 kr
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World literature was long defined in North America as an established canon of European masterpieces, but an emerging global perspective has challenged both this European focus and the very category of "the masterpiece." The first book to look broadly at the contemporary scope and purposes of world …
Translation Zone
A New Comparative Literature
Av Emily Apter
Häftad, 2005
448 kr
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Translation, before 9/11, was deemed primarily an instrument of international relations, business, education, and culture. Today it seems, more than ever, a matter of war and peace. In The Translation Zone, Emily Apter argues that the field of translation studies, habitually confined to a framework …
Literary Channel
The Inter-National Invention of the Novel
Av Margaret Cohen, Carolyn Dever
Häftad, 2002
1025 kr
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The Literary Channel defines a crucial transnational literary "zone" that shaped the development of the modern novel. During the first two centuries of the genre's history, Britain and France were locked in political, economic, and military struggle. The period also saw British and French writers, …
Ambassadors of Culture
The Transamerican Origins of Latino Writing
Häftad, 2001
529 kr
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This polished literary history argues forcefully that Latinos are not newcomers in the United States by documenting a vast network of Spanish-language cultural activity in the nineteenth century. Juxtaposing poems and essays by both powerful and peripheral writers, Kirsten Silva Gruesz proposes a …
Writing Outside the Nation
Av Azade Seyhan
Häftad, 2000
1025 kr
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Some of the most innovative writers of contemporary literature are writing in diaspora in their second or third language. Here Azade Seyhan describes the domain of transnational poetics they inhabit. She begins by examining the works of selected bilingual and bicultural writers of the United States …
Experimental Nations
Or, the Invention of the Maghreb
Häftad, 2003
500 kr
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Jean-Paul Sartre's famous question, "For whom do we write?" strikes close to home for francophone writers from the Maghreb. Do these writers address their compatriots, many of whom are illiterate or read no French, or a broader audience beyond Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia? In Experimental Nations, …
Nation, Language, and the Ethics of Translation
Av Sandra Bermann, Michael Wood
Häftad, 2005
503 kr
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In recent years, scholarship on translation has moved well beyond the technicalities of converting one language into another and beyond conventional translation theory. With new technologies blurring distinctions between "the original" and its reproductions, and with globalization redefining …
Portable Bunyan
A Transnational History of The Pilgrim's Progress
Häftad, 2003
578 kr
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How does a book become an international bestseller? What happens to it as it is translated into different languages, contexts, and societies? How is it changed by the intellectual environments it encounters? What does the transnational circulation mean for its reception back home? Exploring the …
Guru English
South Asian Religion in a Cosmopolitan Language
Häftad, 2005
435 kr
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Guru English is a bold reconceptualization of the scope and meaning of cosmopolitanism, examining the language of South Asian religiosity as it has flourished both inside and outside of its original context for the past two hundred years. The book surveys a specific set of religious vocabularies …
Poetry of the Revolution
Marx, Manifestos, and the Avant-Gardes
Häftad, 2005
392 kr
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Poetry of the Revolution tells the story of political and artistic upheavals through the manifestos of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Ranging from the Communist Manifesto to the manifestos of the 1960s and beyond, it highlights the varied alliances and rivalries between socialism and …
In Spite of Partition
Jews, Arabs, and the Limits of Separatist Imagination
Inbunden, 2007
623 kr
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Partition--the idea of separating Jews and Arabs along ethnic or national lines--is a legacy at least as old as the Zionist-Palestinian conflict. Challenging the widespread "separatist imagination" behind partition, Gil Hochberg demonstrates the ways in which works of contemporary Jewish and Arab …
Princeton Sourcebook in Comparative Literature
From the European Enlightenment to the Global Present
Av David Damrosch, Natalie Melas m. fl.
Häftad, 2009
549 kr
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As comparative literature reshapes itself in today's globalizing age, it is essential for students and teachers to look deeply into the discipline's history and its present possibilities. The Princeton Sourcebook in Comparative Literature is a wide-ranging anthology of classic essays and important …
Event of Postcolonial Shame
Häftad, 2010
549 kr
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In a postcolonial world, where structures of power, hierarchy, and domination operate on a global scale, writers face an ethical and aesthetic dilemma: How to write without contributing to the inscription of inequality? How to process the colonial past without reverting to a pathology of …
Archives of Authority
Empire, Culture, and the Cold War
Inbunden, 2012
549 kr
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Combining literary, cultural, and political history, and based on extensive archival research, including previously unseen FBI and CIA documents, Archives of Authority argues that cultural politics--specifically America's often covert patronage of the arts--played a highly important role in the …
Novel and the Sea
Häftad, 2012
392 kr
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For a century, the history of the novel has been written in terms of nations and territories: the English novel, the French novel, the American novel. But what if novels were viewed in terms of the seas that unite these different lands? Examining works across two centuries, The Novel and the Sea …
Learning Zulu
A Secret History of Language in South Africa
Av Mark Sanders
Inbunden, 2016
608 kr
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"Why are you learning Zulu?" When Mark Sanders began studying the language, he was often asked this question. In Learning Zulu, Sanders places his own endeavors within a wider context to uncover how, in the past 150 years of South African history, Zulu became a battleground for issues of property, …
In the Shadow of World Literature
Sites of Reading in Colonial Egypt
Inbunden, 2016
1139 kr
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We have grown accustomed to understanding world literature as a collection of national or linguistic traditions bound together in the universality of storytelling. Michael Allan challenges this way of thinking and argues instead that the disciplinary framework of world literature, far from serving …
In the Shadow of World Literature
Sites of Reading in Colonial Egypt
Häftad, 2016
480 kr
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We have grown accustomed to understanding world literature as a collection of national or linguistic traditions bound together in the universality of storytelling. Michael Allan challenges this way of thinking and argues instead that the disciplinary framework of world literature, far from serving …
Security
Politics, Humanity, and the Philology of Care
Häftad, 2016
289 kr
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From national security and social security to homeland and cyber-security, "security" has become one of the most overused words in culture and politics today. Yet it also remains one of the most undefined. What exactly are we talking about when we talk about security? In this original and timely …
Leaks, Hacks, and Scandals
Arab Culture in the Digital Age
Inbunden, 2018
1188 kr
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How digital media are transforming Arab culture, literature, and politicsIn recent years, Arab activists have confronted authoritarian regimes both on the street and online, leaking videos and exposing atrocities, and demanding political rights. Tarek El-Ariss situates these critiques of power …
Leaks, Hacks, and Scandals
Arab Culture in the Digital Age
Häftad, 2018
333 kr
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How digital media are transforming Arab culture, literature, and politicsIn recent years, Arab activists have confronted authoritarian regimes both on the street and online, leaking videos and exposing atrocities, and demanding political rights. Tarek El-Ariss situates these critiques of power …
City of Beginnings
Poetic Modernism in Beirut
Inbunden, 2019
608 kr
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How poetic modernism shaped Arabic intellectual debates in the twentieth century and beyondCity of Beginnings is an exploration of modernism in Arabic poetry, a movement that emerged in Beirut during the 1950s and became the most influential and controversial Arabic literary development of the …
Learning Zulu
A Secret History of Language in South Africa
Av Mark Sanders
Häftad, 2019
283 kr
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"Why are you learning Zulu?" When Mark Sanders began studying the language, he was often asked this question. In Learning Zulu, Sanders places his own endeavors within a wider context to uncover how, in the past 150 years of South African history, Zulu became a battleground for issues of property, …
Vernacular English
Reading the Anglophone in Postcolonial India
Inbunden, 2022
1020 kr
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How English has become a language of the people in India—one that enables the state but also empowers protests against itAgainst a groundswell of critiques of global English, Vernacular English argues that literary studies are yet to confront the true political import of the English language in the …
Vernacular English
Reading the Anglophone in Postcolonial India
Häftad, 2022
368 kr
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How English has become a language of the people in India—one that enables the state but also empowers protests against itAgainst a groundswell of critiques of global English, Vernacular English argues that literary studies are yet to confront the true political import of the English language in the …
Making of Barbarians
Chinese Literature and Multilingual Asia
Av Haun Saussy
Inbunden, 2022
441 kr
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A groundbreaking account of translation and identity in the Chinese literary tradition before 1850—with important ramifications for todayDebates on the canon, multiculturalism, and world literature often take Eurocentrism as the target of their critique. But literature is a universe with many …
