1st Edition

Multilingual Currents in Literature, Translation and Culture

Edited By Rachael Gilmour, Tamar Steinitz Copyright 2018
240 Pages
by Routledge

240 Pages
by Routledge

240 Pages
by Routledge

At a time increasingly dominated by globalization, migration, and the clash between supranational and ultranational ideologies, the relationship between language and borders has become more complicated and, in many ways, more consequential than ever. This book shows how concepts of ‘language’ and ‘multilingualism’ look different when viewed from Belize, Lagos, or London, and asks how ideas about... Read more

Chapter 1: Introduction



Rachael Gilmour and Tamar Steinitz



Chapter 2: Writer Speaks with Forked Tongue: Interlingual Predicaments



Steven G. Kellman



Chapter 3: The Worlds of Québec: On Post-Bilingualism, Multidirectionality, and Other Critical Detours



Christopher Larkosh



Chapter 4: Narrating the Polyphonic City: Translation and Identity in Translingual/Transcultural Writing



Rita Wilson



Chapter 5: "Ah’m the man ae a thoosand tongues": Multilingual Scottishness and its Limits



Rachael Gilmour



Chapter 6: Language Choices in Belizean Literature: The Politics of Language in Transnational Caribbean Space



Britta Schneider



Chapter 7: We Need New Names: Novel and Reading Publics as Conduits for Producing Contradictions



Carli Coetzee



Chapter 8: Translation as a Motor of Critique and Invention in Contemporary Literature: The Case of Xiaolu Guo



Fiona Doloughan



Chapter 9: Literary Adventures in Francophone Afropea: Léonora Miano and Music as a Language of Afro-Diasporic Subjectivity



Polo Belina Moji



Chapter 10: Translation and the Multilingual Text: Defining a Public



Moradewun Adejunmobi



Chapter 11: Afterword



Paul F. Bandia





Notes on Contributors

Biography

Rachael Gilmour is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English at Queen Mary, University of London, UK.





Tamar Steinitz is Lecturer in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK.