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The translingual imagination
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ISBN: 9780803274471 0803274475 9780803227453 0803227450 0803219180 Year: 2000 Publisher: Lincoln, Neb. University of Nebraska Press

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It is difficult to write well even in one language. Yet a rich body of translingual literature-by authors who write in more than one language or in a language other than their primary one-exists. The Translingual Imagination is a pioneering study of the phenomenon, which is as ancient as the use of Arabic, Latin, Mandarin, Persian, and Sanskrit as linguae francae. Colonialism, war, mobility, and the aesthetics of alienation have combined to create a modern translingual canon. Opening with an overview of this vast subject, Steven G. Kellman then looks at the differences between ambilinguals-tho


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In Babel's shadow : multilingual literatures, monolingual states
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ISBN: 9780816665013 9780816665020 0816665028 081666501X 0816673535 1452946345 Year: 2010 Publisher: Minneapolis University of Minnesota Press

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