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portada Against World Literature: On the Politics of Untranslatability
Type
Physical Book
Publisher
Author
Year
2013
Language
English
Pages
240
Format
Paperback
ISBN
1844679705
ISBN13
9781844679706
Edition No.
1
Categories

Against World Literature: On the Politics of Untranslatability

Emily Apter (Author) · Verso · Paperback

Against World Literature: On the Politics of Untranslatability - Emily Apter

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Synopsis "Against World Literature: On the Politics of Untranslatability "

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 Edouard Glissant, as well as on the way in which "the untranslatable" is given substancein the context of Barbara Cassin's Vocabulaire europeen des philosophies: Dictionnaire des intraduisibles, the aim is to activate Untranslatability as a theoretical fulcrum of Comparative Literature with bearing on approaches to world literature, literary world systems and literary history, the politics of periodization, the translation of philosophy and theory, the bounds of non-secular proscription and cultural sanction, free versus privatized authorial property, and the poetics of translational difference.

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