2025/07/21 by Vlasta, Sandra
Arts and Humanities · #Comparative and World Literature #Literary Field #Literary Multilingualism #Literary Theory #Multilingual Poetics #Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies #Self-Translation #Translation Studies and Practices
paper · doi:10.13136/2724-4202/1711
openalex publication_date 2025/07/21 · openalex created_date 2025/12/16 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/01
This article gives an overview of research on literary multilingualism during the past decades and explores some of the concepts and approaches that have been suggested by scholars. This also includes a definition or, rather, a discussion of the different possibilities to define literary multilingualism and/or multilingualism in literature. This leads to what can be called the "dark sides" of literary multilingualism, i.e. what lies beyond the celebration and idealisation of multilingualism, self-translation and hybridity. In this contribution, these "dark sides" are addressed both in terms of the literary field (or: fields) and in terms of research on literary multilingualism. To do so, positive and negative aspects of definitions, approaches and methodology are confronted.