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Migrancy and Multilingualism in World Literature, K. Alfons Knauth, Ping-hui Liao (Eds.)

K. Alfons Knauth, Ping-hui Liao (Eds.)
Migrancy and Multilingualism in World Literature
Reihe: poethik polyglott
Bd. 3, 2016, 264 S., 29.90 EUR, 29.90 CHF, br., ISBN 978-3-643-90704-2


This volume, the third in a series of four on the general issue of Multilingualism in World Literature, is focused upon the relationship between Migrancy and Multilingualism, including its aquatic, terrestrian and globalizing imagery and ideology. The cover picture Wandering Tongues, an iconic translation of the book's title, evokes one of the paradigmatic figures of migrancy and multilingualism: the migrations of the early Mexican peoples and their somatic multi-lingualism as represented in their glyphic scripts and iconography. The volume comprises studies on the literary, linguistic and graphic representation of various kinds of migrancy in significant works of African, American, Asian and European literature, as well as a study on the literary archetype of human errancy, the Homeric Odyssey, mapped along its periplum and metamorphosis in world literature.

Ping-hui Liao is Chuan Lyu Endowed Chair Professor and Head of Cultural Studies at the Literature Department of the University of California in San Diego (USA).

K. Alfons Knauth is Professor of Romance Philology at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum (Germany).

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