In Babel's Shadow

<div>Multilingual literature defies simple translation. Beginning with this insight Brian Lennon examines the resistance multilingual literature offers to book publication itself. In readings of G. V. Desani's <i>All about H. Hatterr</i> Anthony Burgess's <i>A Clockwork Orange</i> Christine Brooke-Rose's <i>Between</i> Eva Hoffman's <i>Lost in Translation</i> Emine Sevgi Özdamar's <i>Mutterzunge</i> and Orhan Pamuk's <i>Istanbul</i> among other works Lennon shows how nationalized literary print culture inverts the values of a transnational age reminding us that works of literature are above all objects in motion.</div> <div> </div> <div>Looking closely at the limit of both multilingual literary expression and the literary journalism criticism and scholarship that comments on multilingual work <i>In Babel's Shadow</i> presents a critical reflection on the fate of literature in a world gripped by the crisis of globalization.</div>