The Invention of Monolingualism
David Gramling, "The Invention of Monolingualism"
English | ISBN: 1501318055, 1501318047 | 2016 | 272 pages | EPUB, PDF | 1 + 2 MB
English | ISBN: 1501318055, 1501318047 | 2016 | 272 pages | EPUB, PDF | 1 + 2 MB
The Invention of Monolingualism harnesses literary studies, applied linguisitics, translation studies, and cultural studies to offer a groundbreaking investigation of monolingualism. After briefly describing what "monolingual” means in scholarship and public discourse, and the pejorative effects this common use may have on non-elite and cosmopolitan populations alike, David Gramling sets out to discover a new conception of monolingualism. Along the way, he explores how writers―Turkish, Latin-American, German, and English-language―have in recent decades confronted monolingualism in their texts, and how they have critiqued the World Literature industry’s increasing hunger for “translatable” novels.