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