Product Description: Against World Literature: On the Politics of Untranslatability argues for a rethinking of comparative literature focusing on the problems that emerge when large-scale paradigms of literary studies ignore the politics of the “Untranslatable”—the realm of those words that are continually retranslated, mistranslated, transferred from language to language, or especially resistant to substitution...read more

Product Description: What is the impact of globalization on texts and media? To what extent do artists and writers consciously or unconsciously build translatability into their work? Translation in a Global Market addresses these questions as well as the problems that may arise from a global market in cultural and aesthetic forms...read more

Product Description: A collection of sixteen essays--most of them previously unpublished--brings together leading scholars from a variety of disciplines, as well as prominent artists and filmmakers, to re-examine the enduring problem of fetishism. This book will engage and challenge a wide audience of academic and nonacademic readers, including specialists and students in the fields of anthropology, history, literature, film, psychoanalysis, visual arts, feminist theory, Marxian criticism, and cultural studies...read more