...Ben Conisbee Baer Elaborating Barbara Cassin’s category of the Untranslatable, Emily Apter’s Against World Literature demonstrates the Untranslatable’s performative capability to question and displace the voracity of the World Literature industry. Neither a primer nor a how-to, Apter’s new book...

...Emily Apter Duke University Press 2004 Saidian Humanism Emily Apter Of crucial importance to Edward Said throughout his extraordinary career as an exemplary literary comparatist was the problem of humanism. In taking up...

...Emily Apter Deconstruction arguably marked the last time that comparative literature was truly confident as a discipline; with a clear sight of its philological inheritance and posthumanist telos. Post-2000 comp lit, by comparison, has been plagued by insecurity over what it is and what...

... media, especially if they are not specialists in the lan- guages and cultures where the works originated. Missed Translation Although Emily Apter nowhere mentions Damrosch’s Longman anthology, she evidently has it in mind when she castigates “the entre- preneurial, bulimic drive...

..., in Damrosch’s terms, “threshold points”: these are identifiers that are shared with the literary prize industry, with the tasteful BBC serial. Of late, Emily Apter has been an especially vocal critic of the worlding of literary studies. In her Against World Literature,2 and through her...

... are resisting a recent tendency in comparative literary studies to valorize untranslatability. Revisiting the oft-cited­ account by Marx and Friedrich Engels in the Mani- festo of the emergence of Weltliteratur from an intensified intercourse (Ver- kehr), Emily Apter has observed the dependence...

... Gourgouris and Emily Apter. Mufti / Critical Secularism 3 moments at which thought and culture become frozen, congealed, thing- like, and self-enclosed—hence the significance for him of Lukács’s notion of reification.3 At no point is secular used in his work...

... nevertheless singular—status. In my own work, which has been inspired by both Gourgouris ( 2013b ) and Emily Apter ( 2018 ) (with whom Gourgouris has been in conversation—Apter has provided back cover blurbs for both The Perils of the One and Gourgouris's Lessons in Secular Criticism [ 2013a ]), I have...

... theoretical framework is based on the importance of translation as a way of challenging established discourses (Apter 2014 ), it became crucial that this unique project has to appear in the three working languages of the MENA region to make information available to scholars, activists, policymakers...

... 7 , 2014 . aaup.org/media-release/statement-case-steven-salaita . Apter Emily . 2013 . Against World Literature: On the Politics of Untranslatability . London : Verso . Barghouti Omar . 2011 . Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions: The Global Struggle for Palestinian Rights...

... 2004 Contributors Emily Apter is professor of French and comparative literature at New York University. She is the author of Continental Drift: From National Characters to Virtual Subjects (1999), Feminizing the Fetish: Psychoanalysis and Narrative Obsession in Turn-of- the Century...

... © 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 Contributors Emily Apter is professor of French, English, and comparative literature at New York University. She is the author of several books, including, most recently, The Trans- lation Zone: A New Comparative Literature (2006). Her articles have...

... York: St. Martin’s, 1999. Apter, Emily. Continental Drift: From National Characters to Virtual Subjects. Chi- cago: University of Chicago Press, 1999. Aravamudan, Srinivas. Tropicopolitans: Colonialism and Agency...

... , Ramazani Jahan , and Rouzer Paul , eds., The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics , 4th ed. ( Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press , 2012 ). © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 poetry poetics world literature postdigital encyclopedia References Apter...

... figured in literary and cultural studies that, in resistance to the ethos of the market, emphatically avow the value of the foreign and of the untranslatable. There the foreign inter- rupts and staves off the accomplishment of a homogeneous, transparent global frame. As Emily Apter has put...

... not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. W. G. Sebald cinema adaptation Grant Gee Stan Neumann References Apter Emily . 2013 . Against World Literature: The Politics of Untranslatability . London : Verso . Auerbach Erich . 2003 . Mimesis: Representation of Reality...

... this type of theoretical aphasia or integrative monolingualism there exist more salutary models of comparative cosmopolitanism. Where there is a turn to affect and ethics, a corresponding turn to translation theory can be consequential. Emily Apter’s book The Translation Zone defines the way all...

... , edited by Schwartz Lynne Sharon , 63 – 75 . New York : Seven Stories . Apter Emily . 2003 . Against World Literature: On the Politics of Untranslatability . London : Verso . Atlas James . 1999 . “ W. G. Sebald: A Profile .” Paris Review , no. 41 : 278 – 95...

... papers” (CW, 47:42). 3. In an essay on Eleanor Marx’s work as a translator, Emily Apter assumes Marx and Engels share a philosophy of translation and contrasts their position on this question with Eleanor’s: “Where Marx and Engels see translation functioning politically as a universal cipher...

... it seemed to me to be so interesting a reflection on his own work, but also so pessimistic about the onset of all these new languages and cultures, most of them non-European, that he had nothing to say about, except that they seemed to frighten him in some way” (Said 2002 : 229). Emily Apter ( 2003 : 268...