Against World Literature On the Politics of Untranslatability

Name: Against World Literature On the Politics of Untranslatability
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ISBN: 9781844679706

ISBN-10: 1844679705

ISBN-13: 9781844679706

Edition: 2013

Authors: Emily Apter

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The book engages in a polemical critique of recent efforts to revive World Literature models of literary studies (Moretti, Casanova, etc) on the grounds that they construct their curricula on an assumption of translatability. As a result, incommensurability and what Apter calls the untranslatable are insufficiently built into the literary heuristic. Drawing on philosophies of translation developed by de Man, Derrida, Sam Weber, Barbara Johnson, Abdelfattah Kilito and Édouard Glissant, as well as on the way in which the untranslatable is given substancein the context of Barbara Cassin’s Vocabulaire européen des philosophies: Dictionnaire des intraduisibles, the aim is to activate…

Book details

List price: $39.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Verso Books
Publication date: 4/23/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 6.08" wide x 9.22" long x 1.11" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Oneworldliness



Untranslatables: A World-System



Moretti's Literary World-Systems



Eurochronology and Periodicity



Paranoid Globalism



Checkpoints and Sovereign Borders



Doing Things with Untranslatables



Keywords 1: "Cyclopaedia"



Keywords 2: "Peace "



Keywords 3: "Fado" and "Saudade"



Keywords 4: "Sex" and "Gender "



Keywords 5: "Monde "



Translating "World Literature"



Auerbach's Welt-theology



Said's Terrestrial Humanism



Derrida's Theologies of Translation



Kilito's Injunction: "Thou Shalt Not Translate Me"



Who Owns My Translation?



Marx's Bovary



What Is Yours, Ours, and Mine



Dispossessive Collectivism



Planetary Dysphoria


Index