Apter, Emily S. Against world literature : : on the politics of untranslatability / / Emily Apter.. - - London - New York : Verso, 2013 viii, 358 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : : illustrations (some color) ;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Content notes : Part one. Oneworldliness. Untranslatables: a world-system -- Moretti's literary world-systems -- Eurochronology and periodicity -- Paranoid globalism -- Checkpoints and sovereign borders -- part two. Doing things with untranslatables. Keywords 1: "Cyclopaedia" -- Keywords 2: "Peace" -- Keywords 3: "Fado" and "Saudade" -- Keywords 4: "Sex" and "Gender" -- Keywords 5: "Monde" -- part three. Translating "world literature." Auerbach's Welt-theology -- Said's terrestrial humanism -- Derrida's theologies of translation -- Kilito's injunction: "Thow shalt not translate me" -- part four. Who owns my translations? Marx's Bovary -- What is yours, ours, and mine -- Dispossessive collectivism -- Planetary dysphoria -- Index.
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* * Translating and interpreting. * World literature