Multilingual Literature as World Literature

Cover
Contents
List of Figures
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Multilingual literature as world literature
Part I Multilingualism and modes of reading
	1 Writing in the presence of the languages of the world: Language, literature and world in Édouard Glissant’s late theoretical works
	2 (Sino)graphs in Franco(n)texts: The multilingual and the multimodal in Franco-Chinese literature and visual arts
	3 A ‘boundless creative ferocity’: The Souffles generation, Moroccan poetry and visual art in dialogue
	4 The heterolingual zone: Arabic, English and the practice of worldliness
Part II A multilingual ecology of world literature and modes of circulation
	5 ‘O local sen paredes’: The multilingual ecology of Manuel Rivas’s A desaparición da neve (The Disappearance of Snow)
	6 Monolingualizing the multilingual Ottoman novel: Ahmet Midhat Efendi’s Felatun Bey ile Rakım Efendi
	7 Thinking in French and writing in Spanish: Rubén Darío’s multilingualism
	8 Multilingual maelström: Re-reading Primo Levi’s ‘Canto of Ulysses’
Part III Multilingual comparative reading: Beyond translation and untranslatability
	9 Ghetto, Nakba, Holocaust: New terms (of relationship) in Elias Khoury’s Awlād al-Ghītū
	10 Multilingual others: Transliteration as resistant translation
	11 Hauntological versions in Isabel del Río’s bilingual Zero Negative/ Cero Negativo
	12 transition, untranslatability and the ‘Revolution of the Word’
Part IV Multilingual poetics of world literature
	13 How each sound becomes world
	14 Vahni Capildeo’s multilingual poetics: Translation, synaesthesia, relation
	15 ‘Le mystère de notre présence au monde’: Monchoachi, Creole proverbs and world literature as restoration
	16 Configurations of multilingualism and world literature
Index