Nimble Tongues (eBook)

Steven G. Kellman is author of The Restless Ilan Stavans: Outsider on the Inside (Purdue); Redemption: The Life of Henry Roth (Norton); The Translingual Imagination (Nebraska); The Plague: Fiction and Resistance (Twayne); Loving Reading: Erotics of the Text (Archon); and The Self‑Begetting Novel (Columbia). He edited Switching Languages: Translingual Writers Reflect on Their Craft (Nebraska); UnderWords: Perspectives on DeLillo's Underworld (Delaware); Torpid Smoke: Stories of 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 its coveted Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing. He has taught at Tel-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.

lt;P>“A broad overview of vital topics in the growing field of literary translingualism is long overdue. Nimble Tongues offers a superb introduction to the cultural, social, and political dimensions of writing across languages, drawing on a fascinating array of authors and works. In an age of mass migration, Nimble Tongues demonstrates how linguistic choice serves as an indispensable tool for literary analysis.”