Literature in late monolingualism : literacies for the linguacene /
Monolingualism is bad, literature is good. Right? Though an oversimplification, many of us do tend to quickly associate monolingualism with control, nationalism, indifference and racist violence. In contrast, literature stands as a beacon for expansive human expression and experience, across Earth&#...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Bloomsbury Academic,
[2025].
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| Summary: | Monolingualism is bad, literature is good. Right? Though an oversimplification, many of us do tend to quickly associate monolingualism with control, nationalism, indifference and racist violence. In contrast, literature stands as a beacon for expansive human expression and experience, across Earth's thousands of human languages. But what if this division of things leads us to underestimate the ongoing historical and aesthetic relationship between monolingualism and literature? What if novels made in a European mold tend to be much more obliged and indebted to monolingual structures than their publishers, and even their critics, acknowledge? Instead of whistling past this inconvenience, Literature in Late Monolingualism recognizes it squarely, and details how many authors of contemporary novels do so too. |
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| Physical Description: | xix, 230 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [205]-222) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9798765113912 9798765113929 |