The Invention of Monolingualism

The Invention of Monolingualism harnesses literary studies, applied linguisitics, translation studies, and cultural studies to offer a groundbreaking investigation of monolingualism. After briefly describing what "monolingual? means in scholarship and public discourse, and the pejorative effects this common use may have on non-elite and cosmopolitan populations alike, David Gramling sets out to discover a new conception of monolingualism. Along the way, he explores how writers?Turkish, Latin-American, German, and English-language?have in recent decades confronted monolingualism in their texts, and how they have critiqued the World Literature industry?s increasing hunger for ?translatable? novels.