{"title":"Translation, Poetics of Instability, and the Postmonolingual Condition in Jhumpa Lahiri's In Other Words","authors":"Sohomjit Ray","doi":"10.1353/mfs.2022.0029","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Jhumpa Lahiri's language memoir in Italian generated strong reactions in anglophone reviewers. This essay takes reviews of the bilingual edition of In Other Words as a symptom of the entrenched monolingual paradigm in the United States, analyzes how the textual organization of the book disrupts this paradigm, and identifies Lahiri's understanding of translation as transparent transfer to be the condition of possibility for this disruption. The disruptive multilingualism and poetics of instability in Lahiri's text can be seen as tending toward a postmonolingual paradigm, an increasingly common precondition for writing in a globalized world with or without translation.","PeriodicalId":45576,"journal":{"name":"MFS-Modern Fiction Studies","volume":"28 1","pages":"544 - 565"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5000,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"MFS-Modern Fiction Studies","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.2022.0029","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"LITERATURE","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract:Jhumpa Lahiri's language memoir in Italian generated strong reactions in anglophone reviewers. This essay takes reviews of the bilingual edition of In Other Words as a symptom of the entrenched monolingual paradigm in the United States, analyzes how the textual organization of the book disrupts this paradigm, and identifies Lahiri's understanding of translation as transparent transfer to be the condition of possibility for this disruption. The disruptive multilingualism and poetics of instability in Lahiri's text can be seen as tending toward a postmonolingual paradigm, an increasingly common precondition for writing in a globalized world with or without translation.
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Modern Fiction Studies publishes engaging articles on prominent works of modern and contemporary fiction. Emphasizing historical, theoretical, and interdisciplinary approaches, the journal encourages a dialogue between fiction and theory, publishing work that offers new theoretical insights, clarity of style, and completeness of argument. Modern Fiction Studies alternates general issues dealing with a wide range of texts with special issues focused on single topics or individual writers.
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