Invention of Monolingualism

<b>Winner of the 2018 Book Award awarded by the American Association for Applied Linguistics </b><br/><i><i><br/></i>The Invention of Monolingualism</i> harnesses literary studies applied linguisitics translation studies and cultural studies to offer a groundbreaking investigation of monolingualism. After briefly describing what monolingual means in scholarship and public discourse and the pejorative effects this common use may have on non-elite and cosmopolitan populations alike David Gramling sets out to discover a new conception of monolingualism. Along the way he explores how writers-Turkish Latin-American German and English-language-have in recent decades confronted monolingualism in their texts and how they have critiqued the World Literature industry's increasing hunger for translatable novels.