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Challenging the Myth of Monolingualism.

Minnaard, Liesbeth.

Challenging the Myth of Monolingualism. - 1 online resource (200 pages) - Thamyris/Intersecting: Place, Sex and Race . - Thamyris/Intersecting: Place, Sex and Race 28. Literature and Cultural Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2015, ISBN: 9789004292840. .

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Preliminary material / Introduction: How to Challenge the Myth of Monolingualism? / Getting up onto Monolingualism: Barthes, Kafka, Myth / A Case of ‘Fake Monolingualism’: Morocco, Diglossia and the Writer / Moroccan Literature: A Monster Yet To Be Born? A Response to Fouad Laroui / Philology’s Jargon: How Can We Write Post-Monolingually? / Monolingualism, Heterolingualism, and Poetic Innovation: On Contemporary German Literature, with a Side Glance to the Seventeenth Century / mi have een droom / About Being Representative: Ramsey Nasr’s Poetic Performances as Antwerp City Poet and Dutch Poet Laureate / Eèchtenteèchtig / “Bearing Gifts of Words”: Multilingualism in the Fiction of Flemish-Nigerian Writer Chika Unigwe / Brussels is Europe: Koen Peeters’ Grote Europese Roman as Multilingual Literature / The Barbarism(s) of Multilingualism: Outweirding the Mainstream in Guillermo Gómez-Peña’s Performance Literature / The Script of a Turtle or the Problem of Translation / The Bones of Translation: Yoko Tawada’s Translational Poetics / Contributors / Index / Editors Challenging the Myth of Monolingualism -- Liesbeth Minnaard and Till Dembeck -- David Gramling -- Fouad Laroui -- Madeleine Kasten -- Till Dembeck and Georg Mein -- Esther Kilchmann -- Ramsey Nasr -- Liesbeth Minnaard -- Chika Unigwe -- Elisabeth Bekers -- Thomas Ernst -- Maria Boletsi -- Yoko Tawada -- Bettina Brandt -- Editors Challenging the Myth of Monolingualism -- Editors Challenging the Myth of Monolingualism.

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This volume explores literary negotiations of and challenges to this powerful myth of monolingualism in various, mostly West-European cultural contexts.

9789401210980

10.1163/9789401210980 DOI


Multilingualism.
Multilingualism and literature.


Electronic books.

P306 .M384 2014

410.20397464