{"product_id":"nimble-tongues","title":"Nimble Tongues","description":"\u003ci\u003eNimble Tongues\u003c\/i\u003e is a collection of essays that continues Steven G. Kellman's work in the fertile field of translingualism, focusing on the phenomenon of switching languages. A series of investigations and reflections rather than a single thesis, the collection is perhaps more akin in its aims—if not accomplishment—to George Steiner’s \u003ci\u003eExtraterritorial: Papers on Literature and the Language Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e or Umberto Eco’s \u003ci\u003eTravels in Hyperreality\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTopics covered include the significance of translingualism; translation and its challenges; immigrant memoirs; the autobiographies that Ariel Dorfman wrote in English and Spanish, respectively; the only feature film ever made in Esperanto; Francesca Marciano, an Italian who writes in English; Jhumpa Lahiri, who has abandoned English for Italian; Ilan Stavans, a prominent translingual author and scholar; Hugo Hamilton, a writer who grew up torn among Irish, German, and English; Antonio Ruiz-Camacho, a Mexican who writes in English; and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as a multilingual text.","brand":"Purdue University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57224972468568,"sku":"9781557538727","price":43.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781557538727_fd81e832-d82f-4685-a7be-ed86f3968152.jpg?v=1780114561","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/nimble-tongues","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}