Title Born translated : the contemporary novel in an age of world literature / Rebecca L. Walkowitz

Published New York : Columbia University Press, 2015

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Description 1 online resource Series Literature now Literature Now Contents Introduction: Theory of world literature now -- Close reading at a distance -- The series, the list, and the clone -- Sampling, collating, and counting -- This is not your language -- Born translated and born digital -- Epilogue: Multiples Summary As a growing number of contemporary novelists write explicitly for publication in multiple languages, the genre's form and aims are shifting. Born-translated novels include passages that appear to be written in different tongues, narrators who speak to foreign audiences, and other visual and formal techniques that treat translation as a medium rather than an afterthought. These strategies challenge the global dominance of English, complicate #x93;native" readership, and protect creative works against misinterpretation as they circulate. They have also given rise to a new form of writing that confounds traditional models of literary history and political community. Born Translated builds a much-needed framework for reading translation's effect on fictional works, as well as digital art, avant-garde magazines, literary anthologies, and visual media. Artists and novelists discussed include J.M. Coetzee, Junot Diaz, Jonathan Safran Foer, Mohsin Hamid, Kazuo Ishiguro, Jamaica Kincaid, Ben Lerner, China Miéville, David Mitchell, Walter Mosley, Caryl Phillips, Adam Thirlwell, Young-hae Chang Heavy Industries, and Amy Waldman. The book understands that contemporary literature begins at once in many places, engaging in a new type of social embeddedness and political solidarity. It recasts literary history as a series of convergences and departures and, by elevating the status of #x93;born-translated" works, redefines common conceptions of author, reader, and nation Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes In English Print version record Subject Literature -- Translations -- History and criticism Fiction -- Translations -- History and criticism Translating and interpreting. FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- Multi-Language Phrasebooks. LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Alphabets & Writing Systems. LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Grammar & Punctuation. LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- General. LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Readers. LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Spelling. Fiction Literature -- Translations Translating and interpreting Romaner -- historia. Översättning. Tolkning (översättning) Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Translations Form Electronic book ISBN 0231539452 9780231539456

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