... . Williams Jeffrey J. “The Post-Welfare State University.” American Literary History 18 . 1 ( Spring 2006 ): 190 - 216 . David B. Downing Geopolitical Translators In the fall of 1957, I was a young boy watching the grainy screen of our family’s first television set when images...

...Wang Ning The issue of modernity with regard to the function of translation has been one of the most cutting-edge theoretical topics in both Chinese and international contexts, especially in dealing with globalization and world literature. As we know, modernity functioned both politically...

... migration, identity, language, translation, and geography, both rooted in France and routed along treacherous seaways. Shumona Sinha’s novel Assommons les pauvres also focuses on the experiences of the privileged immigrant narrator whose story is a core part of the novel. Sinha has the privilege to narrate...

...Rita Raley This essay first considers global English in relation to the contemporary sociotechnological milieu. It examines machine translation applications, particularly Google Translate, and suggests that they globalize English in their de facto articulation of it as a normative default. Even...

... anthologies and textbooks of postcolonial and world literature in English. Postcolonial literature has been too narrowly defined so that it refers to Commonwealth literature, excluding Arabic writing altogether, whether it be Arabic fiction in English or Arabic fiction in English translation. It is perhaps...

...Gerardo Muñoz This interview with Italian philosopher Emanuele Coccia revisits key problems of his thought, with particular attention to the imagination, Averroism, sensation, political theology, and anthropology. The occasion for this conversation was Coccia's recent English translation...

... in the context of Italian colonialism in the Horn of Africa. She discusses what it means to claim the city of Rome as one’s own as a black Italian, and places stories of flight and belonging in a global and historical context. This interview was conducted over WhatsApp, transcribed, and translated into English...

... to disturbing Western attitudes toward Muslims. While he recognized the contributions of Orientalist scholars, such as their knowledge of languages and translations of key texts, he and his collaborators in England found their way of thinking unsophisticated, biased, sweepingly broad, and often just plain wrong...

...Maria Elisa Cevasco Fredric Jameson, in dialogue with his Brazilian translator Maria Elisa Cevasco, begins this interview by discussing his earliest influences: Jean-Paul Sartre, G. W. F. Hegel, Karl Marx, structuralism, dialectics, and psychoanalysis. Prompted by Cevasco, Jameson revisits his most...

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... Poetry and Society .” Telos 20 : 56 – 71 . Agamben Giorgio . 1995 . The Idea of Prose . Translated by Sullivan Michael Whitsitt Sam . Albany : State University of New York Press . ———. 1999 . The End of the Poem . Translated by Heller-Roazen Daniel . Palo Alto, CA...

... Louis . 1969 . For Marx . Translated by Brewster Ben . Harmondsworth, UK : Penguin . Arendt Hannah . 1959 . The Human Condition . New York : Doubleday . Badiou Alain . 2005 . Handbook of Inaesthetics . Translated by Toscano Alberto . Stanford, CA : Stanford...

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... is the central factor, though clearly not a form of knowledge predicated on positivist inquiry. Translating this into the cultural and literary realm, interpreting fantasy involves a nuanced exploration of something like what Robert Musil (1996, 286) calls the “Baroque of the Void” —​where...

... [Lanfranc 1063–79], translated in Vaillan- court 2010) written by Abbot Lanfranc (1005–89), right-hand man of William the Conqueror, who appointed him Archbishop of Canter- bury. Lanfranc wrote this tract during the height of the controversy over the orthodoxy of Eucharistic Real Presence. What...

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... sustain a humanism that is anything but posthuman. © 2013 Virginia Tech 2013 Works Cited Aristotle . 1984 . “ On the Soul .” In The Complete Works of Aristotle: The Revised Oxford Translation , vol. 1 , edited by Barnes Jonathan , 641 – 92 . Princeton : Princeton University...