Borrowed Words: Translation, Imitation, and the Making of the Nineteenth-century Novel in Spain
- ISBN-10
- 0838755208
- ISBN-13
- 9780838755204
- Series
- Borrowed Words
- Category
- French fiction
- Pages
- 193
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2002
- Publisher
- Bucknell University Press
- Author
- Elisa Martí-López
Description
The book contends that the acceptance of translation and imitation in the literary life of a country does not imply denying the specific conditions created by political borders in the constitution of a national literature, that is, the existence of national borders framing literary life. What it does is recognize new and different frontiers that destabilize the national confines (as well as the nationalistic values) of literary history. In translation and imitation, borders are experienced not as the demarcation of otherness, but rather as crossroads in the quest for identity."--Jacket.
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