Steven G. Kellman is author of The Restless
Ilan Stavans: Outsider on the Inside (Purdue); Redemption: The Life of
Henry Roth (Norton); The Translingual Imagination (Nebraska); The
Plague: Fiction and Resistance (Twayne); Loving Reading: Erotics of the
Text (Archon); and The Self-Begetting Novel (Columbia). He edited Switching
Languages: Translingual Writers Reflect on Their Craft (Nebraska); UnderWords:
Perspectives on DeLillo's Underworld (Delaware); Torpid Smoke: Stories
of Vladimir Nabokov (Rodopi); and Leslie Fiedler and American Culture
(Delaware). A widely published critic and essayist, Kellman served four terms
on the board of directors of the National Book Critics Circle and received its
coveted Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing. He has taught at
Tel-Aviv University, the University of California campuses at Irvine and
Berkeley, Tbilisi State University, and the University of Sofia. He is
professor of comparative literature at the University of Texas at San Antonio.

Preface
Does Translingualism Matter?
Writer Speaks with Forked Tongue: Interlingual Predicaments
Promiscuous Tongues: Erotics of Translingualism and Translation
Writing South and North: Ariel Dorfman's Linguistic Ambidexterity
Alien Autographs: How Translators Make Their Marks
Translingual Memoirs of the New: American Immigration
Incubus and the Esperanto Movie Industry
An Italian in English: The Translingual Case of Francesca Marciano
Hugo Hamilton's Language War
Jhumpa Lahiri Goes Italian
Linguaphobia and Its Resistance in America
Omnilingual Aspirations: The Case of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Glossary
Works Cited
Index