Challenging the Myth of Monolingualism.

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

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Superior document:Thamyris/Intersecting: Place, Sex and Race
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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)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.