Politics of Cross-Cultural Reading: Tagore, Ben Jelloun and Fo in English

by Marion Dalvai

Overview

With particular attention to the ambivalent position of English as a roadblock to international visibility and as a necessary intermediary for other literary languages, this book underlines the discrepancy between what is read as world literature and what could potentially be read as such.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783034318815
Publisher:	Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Publication date:	07/27/2015
Series:	New Comparative Criticism , #3
Pages:	330
Product dimensions:	5.91(w) x 8.86(h) x (d)

About the Author

Marion Dalvai is Research and Teaching Associate in the School of Modern Languages at the University of St Andrews. Her main research interests are: transnational literature, especially world literature in English translation; intertextuality; young adult fiction and translation of contemporary literature.

Table of Contents

Contents: Reading World Literature in English – «The Universal Possession of Mankind»? The Discursive Politics of World Literature – Rhetorical Power and Symbolic Capital: The Middle Zone of Literary Space – At Home in World Literature? Rabindranath Tagore’s The Home and the World – «I now lay before you the book, the inkwell, and the pens»: Tahar Ben Jelloun’s The Sand Child in English-Language Criticism – Who is Afraid of Dario Fo? Translation and Adaptation Strategies in English-Language Versions of Accidental Death of an Anarchist – Why Investigate Acts of Cross-Cultural Reading? – Untapped Resources: A Provisional Bibliography on Tahar Ben Jelloun’s The Sand Child in French.

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