Rebecca L Walkowitz
Biographic Data
| ID | 201253 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rebecca L Walkowitz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rebecca L |
| FAMILY NAME | Walkowitz |
| SIGNATURE | WALKOWITZ R L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 5 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Thinking with an Accent: Toward a New Object, Method, and Practice
Thinking with an Accent casts accent as a powerfully coded yet underexplored mode of perception shaping our global cultural economy. Theorizing accent as a mediatized object, an interdisciplinary method, and an embodied practice, this volume invites readers to think with an accent-to practice a dialogical, multisensorial inquiry that can yield transformative modalities of knowledge, action, and care
Thinking with an Accent: Toward a New Object, Method, and Practice
Cultural, and Critical Theory panel "Thinking, Making, and Doing with an Accent" (convened by Ragini and Reid Gómez), and the Global Anglophone Forum's "Accents of the Anglophone" panel at the 2023 MLA for welcoming us into their conversations, and for their terrific engagement with our work.As editors, the four of us have forged a tight bond.Co-editing an anthology and writing together, we have learned, is an exercise in trust.But trust, it turn…
Breathing Together
Breathing Together Rebecca L. Walkowitz (bio) For the first seven years of my career, I taught a very large lecture course once, and sometimes twice, a year in a graded auditorium filled seat-to-seat with as many as 350 undergraduates. The course focused on a cluster of themes that linked art and violence–how art resists violence, how art animates violence, how art expresses violence, how violence spurs art– and traced those themes through the hi…
Less Than One Language: Typographic Multilingualism and Post-Anglophone Fiction
What comes after the language model of literary history? This essay considers that question by turning to works of contemporary fiction that operate at the edges of our most dominant language: English. These works use experiments with orthography, typeface, and design to dramatize the visual and aural culture of words, histories of language contact, and the apparatus of literary circulation. Words are there to be seen and heard as well as read, a…
The Postlingual Turn
On Not Knowing: Lahiri, Tawada, Ishiguro
Instead of transforming dominant languages, contemporary novelists Jhumpa Lahiri, Yoko Tawada, and Kazuo Ishiguro have been choosing not to know them. Not knowing, by which they often mean not knowing well (Lahiri) or not knowing intrinsically (Tawada, Ishiguro), brings visibility to the history of conflict and collaboration within languages and focuses the conversation on linguistic hospitality rather than linguistic ownership. Lahiri, Tawada, a…
Response: World Anglophone Is a Theory
Let’s start with the starkest, most tendentious version of what’s happened to the field. The movement “from” Postcolonial “to” World Anglophone has involved two principal gestures: the promotion of...
Media Spectacles
A New Vocabulary for Global Modernism
Bringing together leading critics and literary scholars, A New Vocabulary for Global Modernism argues for new ways of understanding the nature and development of twentieth-century literature and culture
The Persistence of Books
26 WLT MAY–AUGUST 2016 B ooks persist. The rise of the Internet and digital media has not decimated book culture. People continue to collect, restore, and cherish old books, and they also continue to purchase new books in print, even while branching out to audio and electronic formats. Some of the small presses that have nourished the publication of borndigital literature, such as Visual Editions, have also nourished the publication of new kinds …
Planetary modernisms: Provocations on Modernity Across Time
Susan Stanford Friedman is a gifted cultural diplomat, a charismatic ambassador presenting to audiences outside the United States, and to East Asian scholars in particular, a polemically and winnin
Born Translated: The Contemporary Novel in an Age of World Literature
"Born Translated builds a much-needed framework for understanding translation's effect on fictional works, as well as digital art, avant-garde magazines, literary anthologies, and visual media"--Jacket.
English as a Foreign Language: David Mitchell and the Born-Translated Novel
English as a Foreign Language:David Mitchell and the Born-Translated Novel Rebecca L. Walkowitz (bio) The truth of a myth, your Honor, is not its words but its patterns. –David Mitchell, Thousand Autumns Why would a novel want to undermine its own words? Surely, literature is made of words, and any ambitious novel would want to wear its words proudly, declaiming their truth as well as their beauty. Yet we know that novels produced in smaller lang…
For Translation: Virginia Woolf, J. M. Coetzee, and Transnational Comparison
Research Article| March 01 2013 For Translation: Virginia Woolf, J. M. Coetzee, and Transnational Comparison Rebecca L. Walkowitz Rebecca L. Walkowitz Rutgers University [email protected] Rebecca L. Walkowitz is associate professor of English and affiliate faculty in comparative literature at Rutgers University. In 2012-2013, she is the Walter Jackson Bate Fellow in World Literature at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Har…
The Turn to Ethics
What We Talk About When We Talk About Ethics, Lawrence Buell Yielding, Submitting, and Other Ethical Quandaries, Judith Butler the Ethical Practice of Modernity, John Guillory Using People: Kant with Winnicot, Barbara Johnson The Best Intentions, Perri Klass, MD Which Ethics for Democracy?, Chantal Mouffe Redistribution, Recognition and Ethics, Nancy Fraser Ethics of the Other, Beatrice Hanssen Cultural Choice, Homi H. Bhabha Attitude, Its Rhetor…
Why Transnational Modernism Can't Be All in One Language
Research Article| March 01 2011 Why Transnational Modernism Can't Be All in One Language Rebecca L. Walkowitz Rebecca L. Walkowitz Rutgers University [email protected] Rebecca L. Walkowitz, associate professor of English at Rutgers University, is the author of Cosmopolitan Style: Modernism beyond the Nation (Columbia University Press, 2006); editor or co-editor of seven books, including Immigrant Fictions: Contemporary Literature in a…
Immigrant Fictions: Contemporary Literature in an Age of Globalization
Comparison Literature
Some novels do not belong to any one national, ethnic, or linguistic tradition. They are instead comparative novels, or works of what this essay calls "comparison literature." Works of comparison literature are "born-translated": they were published almost simultaneously in multiple languages, and they engage formally, thematically, and sometimes typographically with the theory and practice of translation. Comparison literature fits uneasily with…
Immigrant Fictions: Contemporary Literature in an Age of Globalization
Rebecca L. Walkowitz, Location of Literature: The Book and the Migrant Writer Matthew Hart, An Interview with David Peace Wen Jin, Transnational Criticism and Asian Immigrant Literature in the U.S.: Reading Yan Geling's Fusang and Its English Translation Eric Hayot, Immigrating Fictions: Unfailing Mediation in Dictee and Becoming Madame Mao Vera Eliasova, A Cab of Her Own: Immigration and Mobility in Iva Pekarkova's Gimme the Money J. Dillon Brow…
Bad Modernisms
The Turn to Ethics
Secret Agents: The Rosenberg Case, McCarthyism, and Fifties America
Journal Article Secret Agents: The Rosenberg Case, McCarthy ism, and Fifties America. Ed. by Marjorie Garber and Rebecca L. Walkowitz. New York: Routledge, 1995 and The Press, the Rosenbergs, and the Cold War. By John F. Neville. Westport: Praeger, 1995 Get access Stephen J. Whitfield Stephen J. Whitfield Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American Histor…
Thinking with an Accent: Toward a New Object, Method, and Practice
Cultural, and Critical Theory panel "Thinking, Making, and Doing with an Accent" (convened by Ragini and Reid Gómez), and the Global Anglophone Forum's "Accents of the Anglophone" panel at the 2023 MLA for welcoming us into their conversations, and for their terrific engagement with our work.As editors, the four of us have forged a tight bond.Co-editing an anthology and writing together, we have learned, is an exercise in trust.But trust, it turn…
Thinking with an Accent: Toward a New Object, Method, and Practice
Thinking with an Accent casts accent as a powerfully coded yet underexplored mode of perception shaping our global cultural economy. Theorizing accent as a mediatized object, an interdisciplinary method, and an embodied practice, this volume invites readers to think with an accent-to practice a dialogical, multisensorial inquiry that can yield transformative modalities of knowledge, action, and care
Comparison Literature
Some novels do not belong to any one national, ethnic, or linguistic tradition. They are instead comparative novels, or works of what this essay calls "comparison literature." Works of comparison literature are "born-translated": they were published almost simultaneously in multiple languages, and they engage formally, thematically, and sometimes typographically with the theory and practice of translation. Comparison literature fits uneasily with…
The Postlingual Turn
On Not Knowing: Lahiri, Tawada, Ishiguro
Instead of transforming dominant languages, contemporary novelists Jhumpa Lahiri, Yoko Tawada, and Kazuo Ishiguro have been choosing not to know them. Not knowing, by which they often mean not knowing well (Lahiri) or not knowing intrinsically (Tawada, Ishiguro), brings visibility to the history of conflict and collaboration within languages and focuses the conversation on linguistic hospitality rather than linguistic ownership. Lahiri, Tawada, a…
Secret Agents: The Rosenberg Case, McCarthyism, and Fifties America
Journal Article Secret Agents: The Rosenberg Case, McCarthy ism, and Fifties America. Ed. by Marjorie Garber and Rebecca L. Walkowitz. New York: Routledge, 1995 and The Press, the Rosenbergs, and the Cold War. By John F. Neville. Westport: Praeger, 1995 Get access Stephen J. Whitfield Stephen J. Whitfield Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American Histor…
Secret Agents: The Rosenberg Case, McCarthyism, and Fifties America
Journal Article Secret Agents: The Rosenberg Case, McCarthy ism, and Fifties America. Ed. by Marjorie Garber and Rebecca L. Walkowitz. New York: Routledge, 1995 and The Press, the Rosenbergs, and the Cold War. By John F. Neville. Westport: Praeger, 1995 Get access Stephen J. Whitfield Stephen J. Whitfield Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American Histor…
The Turn to Ethics
Bad Modernisms
Immigrant Fictions: Contemporary Literature in an Age of Globalization
Rebecca L. Walkowitz, Location of Literature: The Book and the Migrant Writer Matthew Hart, An Interview with David Peace Wen Jin, Transnational Criticism and Asian Immigrant Literature in the U.S.: Reading Yan Geling's Fusang and Its English Translation Eric Hayot, Immigrating Fictions: Unfailing Mediation in Dictee and Becoming Madame Mao Vera Eliasova, A Cab of Her Own: Immigration and Mobility in Iva Pekarkova's Gimme the Money J. Dillon Brow…
Comparison Literature
Some novels do not belong to any one national, ethnic, or linguistic tradition. They are instead comparative novels, or works of what this essay calls "comparison literature." Works of comparison literature are "born-translated": they were published almost simultaneously in multiple languages, and they engage formally, thematically, and sometimes typographically with the theory and practice of translation. Comparison literature fits uneasily with…
Immigrant Fictions: Contemporary Literature in an Age of Globalization
Why Transnational Modernism Can't Be All in One Language
Research Article| March 01 2011 Why Transnational Modernism Can't Be All in One Language Rebecca L. Walkowitz Rebecca L. Walkowitz Rutgers University [email protected] Rebecca L. Walkowitz, associate professor of English at Rutgers University, is the author of Cosmopolitan Style: Modernism beyond the Nation (Columbia University Press, 2006); editor or co-editor of seven books, including Immigrant Fictions: Contemporary Literature in a…
For Translation: Virginia Woolf, J. M. Coetzee, and Transnational Comparison
Research Article| March 01 2013 For Translation: Virginia Woolf, J. M. Coetzee, and Transnational Comparison Rebecca L. Walkowitz Rebecca L. Walkowitz Rutgers University [email protected] Rebecca L. Walkowitz is associate professor of English and affiliate faculty in comparative literature at Rutgers University. In 2012-2013, she is the Walter Jackson Bate Fellow in World Literature at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Har…
The Turn to Ethics
What We Talk About When We Talk About Ethics, Lawrence Buell Yielding, Submitting, and Other Ethical Quandaries, Judith Butler the Ethical Practice of Modernity, John Guillory Using People: Kant with Winnicot, Barbara Johnson The Best Intentions, Perri Klass, MD Which Ethics for Democracy?, Chantal Mouffe Redistribution, Recognition and Ethics, Nancy Fraser Ethics of the Other, Beatrice Hanssen Cultural Choice, Homi H. Bhabha Attitude, Its Rhetor…
Born Translated: The Contemporary Novel in an Age of World Literature
"Born Translated builds a much-needed framework for understanding translation's effect on fictional works, as well as digital art, avant-garde magazines, literary anthologies, and visual media"--Jacket.
English as a Foreign Language: David Mitchell and the Born-Translated Novel
English as a Foreign Language:David Mitchell and the Born-Translated Novel Rebecca L. Walkowitz (bio) The truth of a myth, your Honor, is not its words but its patterns. –David Mitchell, Thousand Autumns Why would a novel want to undermine its own words? Surely, literature is made of words, and any ambitious novel would want to wear its words proudly, declaiming their truth as well as their beauty. Yet we know that novels produced in smaller lang…
A New Vocabulary for Global Modernism
Bringing together leading critics and literary scholars, A New Vocabulary for Global Modernism argues for new ways of understanding the nature and development of twentieth-century literature and culture
The Persistence of Books
26 WLT MAY–AUGUST 2016 B ooks persist. The rise of the Internet and digital media has not decimated book culture. People continue to collect, restore, and cherish old books, and they also continue to purchase new books in print, even while branching out to audio and electronic formats. Some of the small presses that have nourished the publication of borndigital literature, such as Visual Editions, have also nourished the publication of new kinds …
Planetary modernisms: Provocations on Modernity Across Time
Susan Stanford Friedman is a gifted cultural diplomat, a charismatic ambassador presenting to audiences outside the United States, and to East Asian scholars in particular, a polemically and winnin
Response: World Anglophone Is a Theory
Let’s start with the starkest, most tendentious version of what’s happened to the field. The movement “from” Postcolonial “to” World Anglophone has involved two principal gestures: the promotion of...
Media Spectacles
On Not Knowing: Lahiri, Tawada, Ishiguro
Instead of transforming dominant languages, contemporary novelists Jhumpa Lahiri, Yoko Tawada, and Kazuo Ishiguro have been choosing not to know them. Not knowing, by which they often mean not knowing well (Lahiri) or not knowing intrinsically (Tawada, Ishiguro), brings visibility to the history of conflict and collaboration within languages and focuses the conversation on linguistic hospitality rather than linguistic ownership. Lahiri, Tawada, a…
Less Than One Language: Typographic Multilingualism and Post-Anglophone Fiction
What comes after the language model of literary history? This essay considers that question by turning to works of contemporary fiction that operate at the edges of our most dominant language: English. These works use experiments with orthography, typeface, and design to dramatize the visual and aural culture of words, histories of language contact, and the apparatus of literary circulation. Words are there to be seen and heard as well as read, a…
The Postlingual Turn
Thinking with an Accent: Toward a New Object, Method, and Practice
Thinking with an Accent casts accent as a powerfully coded yet underexplored mode of perception shaping our global cultural economy. Theorizing accent as a mediatized object, an interdisciplinary method, and an embodied practice, this volume invites readers to think with an accent-to practice a dialogical, multisensorial inquiry that can yield transformative modalities of knowledge, action, and care
Thinking with an Accent: Toward a New Object, Method, and Practice
Cultural, and Critical Theory panel "Thinking, Making, and Doing with an Accent" (convened by Ragini and Reid Gómez), and the Global Anglophone Forum's "Accents of the Anglophone" panel at the 2023 MLA for welcoming us into their conversations, and for their terrific engagement with our work.As editors, the four of us have forged a tight bond.Co-editing an anthology and writing together, we have learned, is an exercise in trust.But trust, it turn…
Breathing Together
Breathing Together Rebecca L. Walkowitz (bio) For the first seven years of my career, I taught a very large lecture course once, and sometimes twice, a year in a graded auditorium filled seat-to-seat with as many as 350 undergraduates. The course focused on a cluster of themes that linked art and violence–how art resists violence, how art animates violence, how art expresses violence, how violence spurs art– and traced those themes through the hi…
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