Challenging the Myth of Monolingualism.

• Superior document: Thamyris/Intersecting: Place, Sex and Race
• Author: Minnaard, Liesbeth.
• TeilnehmendeR: Dembeck, Till.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden : : BRILL,, 2014.
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Series: Thamyris/Intersecting: Place, Sex and Race 28.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (200 pages)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.
• Other title: 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 /
• ISBN: 9401210985
• Hierarchical level: Monograph

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