In Babel's Shadow: Multilingual Literatures, Monolingual States

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1968 (as politically significant year), xiv, 15, 17, 84, 176n.13, 210n.40 1991 (as politically significant year), 168, 169, 188n.46, 210n.41 academic profession: anticolonial critique of, 141; bureaucratic character of, xi, 7, 64, 147, 177n.14, 180n.3, 187n.28; careerism in, 7, 52– 53, 141–42; circumscription of, xiv, 7, 10, 21, 34, 39, 134–35; culture wars in, 64; as determined by imperial cultural legacies, 144; discourse of, ix–x, 2–3, 81, 129; eccentricity in, 52–54; ideal formations, 53–54; marginal formations, 53–54; modes of discipline in, xv, 123, 153; theory wars in, 138 Achebe, Chinua, 43, 49 ACLA (American Comparative Literature Association), xv, 220n.29 Adorno, Theodor W., 112, 124, 155, 206n.66, 209n.24, 211n.50 African English, 48–49 Aggeler, Geoffrey, 103, 208n.16, 209nn.18–21 Ahmad, Aijaz, 214n.10 Aksan, Yeşim, 219n.13 Alhadeff, Gini, 155, 221n.31 Allatson, Paul, 164–65, 224n.60 allegory: historical, 100; linguistic, 96; national, 214n.10; national language, 109, 128, 154; technical, 168; world literary, 152, 168, 214n.10 Almond, Ian, 218n.11 Alvarez, Julia, 214n.6 American studies. See U.S. American studies Anand, Mulk Raj, 197nn.43, 46 anarchism, 40, 173, 196n.33 Anderson, Benedict, 57, 79–80, 194n.23, 200n.3, 206n.62 anglicization, 24, 34, 82, 103, 109, 150, 222n.49 Anglocentrism, 2, 35, 110 anticolonial: critique of the academy, 141; language politics, 47–48 Antin, Mary, 151 antinomy: of literary-critical practice, 142; of plurilingualism in translation, xviii, 11, 24–25, 123, 127, 136; 225 Index 226 Index translation as, 22, 76; as usefully insoluble problem, xvii, 10, 125 antiquarianism, xi, 177n.14 antistatism, 19, 40, 173, 196n.33 antisystemic literary and cultural theory, x, 29, 31, 185n.22 antisystemic political movements, 19, 39, 196n.33 Anzaldúa, Gloria, 2, 83–84, 155, 163, 164, 180n.2, 181n.3, 187n.37, 191n.66, 200n.6, 207nn.71–72, 221n.32, 222nn.52–56, 223n.58 apposition, 10, 12, 18, 44, 45, 46, 82, 154, 160. See also plurilingualism: serial appropriation, 11, 20, 28, 33, 34, 50, 61, 64, 119, 148, 158, 165, 172, 193n.10 Apter, Emily, xv, xviii, 68, 179nn.20, 24, 181n.3, 182n.4, 190n.66, 203n.25, 220n.28 Arabic (language), 3, 16, 57, 89, 93, 138, 158, 190, 201n.9, 206n.54, 209n.18, 218n.13. See also Darija Arac, Jonathan, 182n.6 archive: as analogy, 134; of contemporary literature, 59, 74, 81, 84, 85, 153, 154, 159, 171, 176n.5, 198n.57; electronic literature as, xviii; fever (mal d’archive), 134; format, 57; future of, 159; historical, 23, 126, 175n.4; limit of, xiv; living, 133–34, 138; as managed space, 61; material, 134, 135, 200n.5; monumental (Foucault), 178n.15; of plurilingual experience, 153; posterity in, xiv, xviii, 4, 25, 51, 84, 85, 154; role in research, 85, 126; of scholarship of contemporary literature, 127, 143; silent, 74; vs. seminar, xi; as winners’ history, 19, 25 argot, 11, 106, 209n.26, 210n.39 Arrighi, Giovanni, 36, 196n.25 ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange), 70, 168– 70, 203n.33 Ashcroft, Bill, 46, 198n.59 Auerbach, Erich, 67–68, 182n.4, 203n.25 autobiography, 17, 124, 125, 128–29, 130. See also language memoir automation, 67, 71, 91, 96, 97, 100, 180n.1, 208n.9 autonomy, 8, 119, 193; of art and literature , 14, 21–22, 24; avant-garde, 19, 165, 178n.16; inversion of, by strong plurilingualism, 24; of language, 119 avant-garde: agonistic drive of, 21, 132, 192n.5; auto-curating tradition of, 23; autonomy, 19, 165, 178n.16; critical, 39, 132, 133, 171; discourse, 22, 23, 24; double bind of, 118; as eluding scholarship, 25; fate of, 171; as historical , 21, 22, 189; literary, 21, 22, 23, 171; modernist conception of, 142; as operating in secrecy, 183n.13; silence, 165, 183n.13 Aztlanism, 163–64 babble, 20, 106, 172 Babel, 33, 63, 68, 173, 201n.9, 205n.52 Bachmann, Ingeborg, 205n.54 Bahasa Indonesia (language), 195n.23 Baldwin, James, 43 Balibar, Étienne, 184n.16 Başçılar, Seyfettin, 142, 216n.3 base language, 60, 76, 77, 84, 86, 91, 107 Bassnett, Susan, 6, 181n.3, 184nn.17–18 Bateson, F. H., 40–42 Baudrillard, Jean, 210n.40 Beckett, Samuel, 43 Beebee, Thomas O., 215n.15 Bellay, Joachin du, 200n.2 Index 227 Bengali (language), 191n.1 Benjamin, Walter, 13, 72, 123, 135, 177n.14...