The Global Novel: a literature podcast

Apter's Politics of Untranslatability

July 15, 2023 Claire Hennessy, Greg Hennessy
The Global Novel: a literature podcast
Apter's Politics of Untranslatability
Show Notes

Emily Apter’s Against World Literature: On the Politics of Untranslatability is a pivotal monograph in the study of comparative literature, published in 2014, ushering a significant turn in theorizing what is world literature and what it should be as a discipline in the US academia. Emily Apter is the major contributor to the recent debate about world literature theory. She is a Harvard graduate and her areas of expertise range from philosophizing in Languages, Political Theory, Translation theory, to continental philosophy, psychoanalysis, French and German literature. She is currently Professor of Comparative Literature and French at New York University.

Recommended Reading:
Emily Apter, Against World Literature: On the Politics of Untranslatability (2014)

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