The Translingual Imagination (Magill’s Literary Annual 2001)
At a glance:
- Author: Steven G. Kellman
- First Published: 2000
- Type of Work: Literary history and literary criticism
- Genres: Criticism, Nonfiction
- Subjects: Language or languages, Literature, Writing, Bilingualism
Beginning with the articles eventually subsumed in The Self-Begetting Novel (1980), Steven G. Kellman has distinguished himself in the field of comparative literature as historian, critic, and scholar of what has often been seen as “experimental” fiction. In The Translingual Imagination, Kellman privileges the experimental nature of all creative writing, memoir as well as fiction, by focusing upon writers whose expression embraces more than one language, or, at the very least, occurs in an acquired, as opposed to native, idiom. Revisiting certain works and authors...
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