{"product_id":"literature-in-late-monolingualism-by-dr-david-gramling-9798765113912","title":"Literature in Late Monolingualism","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMonolingualism is bad; literature is good — right?\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFor many of us, monolingualism is associated with closed-mindedness, political nationalism, and a general hostility to diverse knowledges and experiences of the world. In contrast, literature continues to stand allegedly unbeholden, as a symbolic beacon for expansive human expression and insight — making meaning astride Earth’s thousands of human languages.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBut what if this division of virtue and vice isn’t quite right, leading us to overlook the uninterrupted historical and aesthetic collusion between political monolingualism and literary novels today? What if novels made in a European mould tend to be much more indebted to monolingual structures, ideologies, and styles than their publishers, and even their critics, care to acknowledge?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eInstead of whistling past such a discomfort, \u003ci\u003eLiterature in Late Monolingualism\u003c\/i\u003e recognizes it squarely — detailing the important ways in which many authors of contemporary novels do so too. As it turns out, these authors and their novels tend to be far less skittish than their marketers are about the vast implications of monolingualism in literature, literary critique, and civic life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRather than rebuking monolingualism as a social vice or a personal shortcoming, authors from China Miéville to Dorthe Nors to Karin Tidbeck to Neal Stephenson investigate it dauntlessly, aiming to show us in vivid terms how monolingualism is still often calling the shots in our globalised aesthetic and political cultures today.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47596768395500,"sku":"9798765113912","price":49.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/22c1dbe1988311bbe3db4d05c912adba.jpg?v=1777956151","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/literature-in-late-monolingualism-by-dr-david-gramling-9798765113912","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}