Abstract
This panel includes four papers representing the field of Literary Multilingualism under the umbrella of Journal of Literary Multilingualism, its broad vision, areas of study, and directions, and it features a multilingual poet who will read a polyglot poem. Literary multilingualism explores texts written in non-native languages, in a mix of languages and alternating languages, e.g., the ‘translingual trinity’: Samuel Beckett, Joseph Conrad, and Vladimir Nabokov. The introduction explains the rationale and briefly sketch the background for this new field of study. Presenters: Steven G. Kellman discusses Translingual American Writers in Paris who wrote in French (Benjamin Franklin, Henry Ward Church, T.S. Eliot, Natalie Clifford Barney, Julien Green, Eugène Jolas, and Jonathan Littell). Sandra Vlasta discusses Multilingualism and/in Travel Writing–the journeys across linguistic boundaries–and reports on writers’ experiences with other people, other countries, and other cultures (e.g. by Georg Forster, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, George Sand). Giulia Travaglini explores multilingual writers’ ultimate linguistic and national literary affiliation and distills their common choice: the link between literary multilingualism and its metalinguistic dimension, for several contemporary writers, the ways in which metalanguage constructs linguistic identity by illustrating what it is not (e.g. the case of Yousif M. Qasmiyeh). Sabira Ståhlberg concludes with her polyglot poem in forty languages entitled ‘Balalar of Imperier’–‘Children of Empires’.
Presenters
Natasha LvovichEditor in Chief, City University of New York, KIngsborough College, Emerita Professor of English, Journal of Literary Multilingualism, DeGruyter/Brill, New York, United States Sabira Stahlberg
Multilingual Writer, Independent Scholar, Finland Steven G. Kellman
Professor of Comparative Literature and Jack and Laura Richmond Endowed Faculty Fellow in American Literature, University of Texas at San Antonio, Texas, United States Sandra Vlasta
University of Genoa, Italy Giulia Travaglini
Sapienza University of Rome
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Literary Multilingualism, Multilingual Literature, Translingual Writers, Literature Written in L2
