Matthew Eatough

Bio

Matthew Eatough is Assistant Professor of English at Baruch College, City University of New York.  He is the assistant editor of the Oxford Handbook of Global Modernisms (Oxford University Press, 2012), and is currently completing a book manuscript with the provisional title Long Waves of Modernity: Global History, the World-System, and the Making of the Anglophone Novel.

Contributions

Philology Contra Modernism: Translating Izibongo in Johannesburg

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In many ways, the concept of translation has been at the heart of the global modernist project. In the canonical account of modernism first laid down by Hugh Kenner and his contemporaries, modernist translations of Chinese, Japanese, and Sanskrit texts were never really intended to jumpstart a “comparative poetics.” They were simply the raw materials that Pound, Yeats, and Eliot used to “rethink the nature of an English poem.” [1] Fast-forward 40 years, and such a statement seems to cut against...

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