The Event of Postcolonial Shame

Timothy Bewes

• Paperback | Engels | Translation/Transnation | nr. 26
• In a postcolonial world, where structures of power, hierarchy, and domination operate on a global scale, writers face an ethical and aesthetic dilemma... Lees meer

What Is World Literature?

David Damrosch

• Paperback | Engels | Translation/Transnation | nr. 53
• World literature was long defined in North America as an established canon of European masterpieces, but an emerging global perspective has challenged... Lees meer

The Making of Barbarians

Haun Saussy

• Hardcover | Engels | Translation/Transnation | nr. 58
• A groundbreaking account of translation and identity in the Chinese literary tradition before 1850--with important ramifications for today Debates on ... Lees meer

We, the People of Europe?

Étienne Balibar

• Paperback | Engels | Translation/Transnation | nr. 18
• étienne Balibar has been one of Europe's most important philosophical and political thinkers since the 1960s. His work has been vastly influential on ... Lees meer

Utopian Generations

Nicholas Brown

• Paperback | Engels | Translation/Transnation | nr. 11
• Utopian Generations develops a powerful interpretive matrix for understanding world literature--one that renders modernism and postcolonial African li... Lees meer

Dictionary of Untranslatables

• Hardcover | Engels | Translation/Transnation | nr. 35
• A one-of-a-kind reference to the international vocabulary of the humanities This is an encyclopedic dictionary of close to 400 important philosophical... Lees meer

In Spite of Partition in Spite of Partition

Gil Z Hochberg

• Hardcover | Engels | Translation/Transnation | nr. 17
• Partition--the idea of separating Jews and Arabs along ethnic or national lines--is a legacy at least as old as the Zionist-Palestinian conflict. Chal... Lees meer

Experimental Nations Or, the Invention of the Maghreb

Réda Bensmaïa

• Paperback | Engels | Translation/Transnation | nr. 4
• Jean-Paul Sartre's famous question, "For whom do we write?" strikes close to home for francophone writers from the Maghreb. Do these writers address t... Lees meer

Security

John T Hamilton

• Hardcover | Engels | Translation/Transnation | nr. 34
• From national security and social security to homeland and cyber-security, "security" has become one of the most overused words in culture and politic... Lees meer

Learning Zulu

Mark Sanders

• Paperback | Engels | Translation/Transnation | nr. 55
• " Why are you learning Zulu? " When Mark Sanders began studying the language, he was often asked this question. In Learning Zulu , Sanders places his ... Lees meer

Nation, Language, and the Ethics of Translation

• Paperback | Engels | Translation/Transnation | nr. 10
• In recent years, scholarship on translation has moved well beyond the technicalities of converting one language into another and beyond conventional t... Lees meer

Guru English

Srinivas Aravamudan

• Paperback | Engels | Translation/Transnation | nr. 12
• Guru English is a bold reconceptualization of the scope and meaning of cosmopolitanism, examining the language of South Asian religiosity as it has fl... Lees meer

City of Beginnings

Robyn Creswell

• Hardcover | Engels | Translation/Transnation | nr. 57
• How poetic modernism shaped Arabic intellectual debates in the twentieth century and beyond City of Beginnings is an exploration of modernism in Arabi... Lees meer

Ambassadors of Culture

Kirsten Silva Gruesz

• Paperback | Engels | Translation/Transnation | nr. 2
• This polished literary history argues forcefully that Latinos are not newcomers in the United States by documenting a vast network of Spanish-language... Lees meer

The Princeton Sourcebook in Comparative Literature

• Paperback | Engels | Translation/Transnation | nr. 22
• Key essays on comparative literature from the eighteenth century to today As comparative literature reshapes itself in today's globalizing age, it is ... Lees meer

Archives of Authority

Andrew N Rubin

• Hardcover | Engels | Translation/Transnation | nr. 32
• Combining literary, cultural, and political history, and based on extensive archival research, including previously unseen FBI and CIA documents, Arch... Lees meer

The Portable Bunyan

Isabel Hofmeyr

• Paperback | Engels | Translation/Transnation | nr. 54
• How does a book become an international bestseller? What happens to it as it is translated into different languages, contexts, and societies? How is i... Lees meer

The Novel and the Sea

Margaret Cohen

• Paperback | Engels | Translation/Transnation | nr. 33
• For a century, the history of the novel has been written in terms of nations and territories: the English novel, the French novel, the American novel.... Lees meer