Can These Bones Live?: Translation, Survival, and Cultural Memory

by Bella Brodzki

Book Overview

Can These Bones Live? views translation as a mode of literary invigoration--indeed, as a process at the core of all important cultural transactions--rather than a mere utilitarian means of converting the terms of one language into another. Brodzki considers a wide array of canonical and lesser-known fictional and autobiographical works by authors from North America, Europe, and Africa--including Philip Roth, Italo Calvino, Jorge Semprun,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804755426
• ISBN13: 9780804755429
• Release Date: May 2007
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.4" x 8.9"