Emily S Apter
Biographic Data
| ID | 5947883 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Emily S Apter |
| GIVEN NAMES | Emily S |
| FAMILY NAME | Apter |
| SIGNATURE | APTER E S |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Translation Zone
Translation, before 9/11, was deemed primarily an instrument of international relations, business, education, and culture. Today it seems, more than ever, a matter of war and peace. In The Translation Zone , Emily Apter argues that the field of translation studies, habitually confined to a framework of linguistic fidelity to an original, is ripe for expansion as the basis for a new comparative literature. Organized around a series of propositions…
Continental Drift
From xenophobic appropriations of Joan of Arc to Afro-futurism and cyberpunk, the characters of the colonial era often seem to be dissolving into postnational and virtual subjects. In Continental Drift, Emily Apter deftly analyzes the French colonial and postcolonial experience as a case study in the erosion of belief in national destiny and the emergence of technologically mediated citizenship. Among the many topics Apter explores are the fate o…
Out of Character
MLN - Volume 112, Number 4, September 1997 (French Issue)
Andre Gide and the Codes of Homotextuality
Stigma indelebile
Written in 1943, Gide's contentious remark encapsulated nearly fifty years of ambivalence towards his realist predecessor. An admirer in his youth of Zola's La Faute de l'Abbe' Mouret, Gide had pastiched the excesses of idolatrous devotion and its transgressive spirituality in his own post-Symbolist Tentative amoureuse. Shortly thereafter, he oscillated toward parody, using Zola's art of objective realist description as the target of satire in hi…
Continental Drift
From xenophobic appropriations of Joan of Arc to Afro-futurism and cyberpunk, the characters of the colonial era often seem to be dissolving into postnational and virtual subjects. In Continental Drift, Emily Apter deftly analyzes the French colonial and postcolonial experience as a case study in the erosion of belief in national destiny and the emergence of technologically mediated citizenship. Among the many topics Apter explores are the fate o…
Out of Character
MLN - Volume 112, Number 4, September 1997 (French Issue)
Stigma indelebile
Written in 1943, Gide's contentious remark encapsulated nearly fifty years of ambivalence towards his realist predecessor. An admirer in his youth of Zola's La Faute de l'Abbe' Mouret, Gide had pastiched the excesses of idolatrous devotion and its transgressive spirituality in his own post-Symbolist Tentative amoureuse. Shortly thereafter, he oscillated toward parody, using Zola's art of objective realist description as the target of satire in hi…
Andre Gide and the Codes of Homotextuality
Out of Character
MLN - Volume 112, Number 4, September 1997 (French Issue)
Continental Drift
From xenophobic appropriations of Joan of Arc to Afro-futurism and cyberpunk, the characters of the colonial era often seem to be dissolving into postnational and virtual subjects. In Continental Drift, Emily Apter deftly analyzes the French colonial and postcolonial experience as a case study in the erosion of belief in national destiny and the emergence of technologically mediated citizenship. Among the many topics Apter explores are the fate o…
The Translation Zone
Translation, before 9/11, was deemed primarily an instrument of international relations, business, education, and culture. Today it seems, more than ever, a matter of war and peace. In The Translation Zone , Emily Apter argues that the field of translation studies, habitually confined to a framework of linguistic fidelity to an original, is ripe for expansion as the basis for a new comparative literature. Organized around a series of propositions…
Art (3 works) · History (3 works) · Geology (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies (2 works) · Psychology (2 works)