TY - BOOK AU - Minnaard,Liesbeth AU - Dembeck,Till TI - Challenging the Myth of Monolingualism T2 - Thamyris/Intersecting: Place, Sex and Race SN - 9789401210980 AV - P306 .M384 2014 U1 - 410.20397464 PY - 2014/// CY - Leiden PB - BRILL KW - Multilingualism KW - Multilingualism and literature KW - Electronic books N1 - Description based upon print version of record; 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; Available to subscribing member institutions only N2 - This volume explores literary negotiations of and challenges to this powerful myth of monolingualism in various, mostly West-European cultural contexts UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789401210980 ER -