Nimble Tongues

Steven G. Kellman is author of The RestlessIlan Stavans: Outsider on the Inside (Purdue); Redemption: The Life ofHenry Roth (Norton); The Translingual Imagination (Nebraska); ThePlague: Fiction and Resistance (Twayne); Loving Reading: Erotics of theText (Archon); and The Self‑Begetting Novel (Columbia). He edited SwitchingLanguages: Translingual Writers Reflect on Their Craft (Nebraska); UnderWords:Perspectives on DeLillo's Underworld (Delaware); Torpid Smoke: Storiesof Vladimir Nabokov (Rodopi); and Leslie Fiedler and American Culture(Delaware). A widely published critic and essayist, Kellman served four terms on the board of directors of the National Book Critics Circle and received itscoveted Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing. He has taught atTel-Aviv University, the University of California campuses at Irvine and Berkeley, Tbilisi State University, and the University of Sofia. He is professor of comparative literature at the University of Texas at San Antonio.

Preface
Does Translingualism Matter?
Writer Speaks with Forked Tongue: Interlingual Predicaments
Promiscuous Tongues: Erotics of Translingualism and Translation
Writing South and North: Ariel Dorfman's Linguistic Ambidexterity
Alien Autographs: How Translators Make Their Marks
Translingual Memoirs of the New: American Immigration
Incubus and the Esperanto Movie Industry
An Italian in English: The Translingual Case of Francesca Marciano
Hugo Hamilton's Language War
Jhumpa Lahiri Goes Italian
Linguaphobia and Its Resistance in America
Omnilingual Aspirations: The Case of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Glossary
Works Cited
Index