Background
Kellman, Steven G. was born on November 15, 1947 in Brooklyn. Son of Max and Pearl (Pomerantz) Kellman.
( It is difficult to write well even in one language. Yet...)
It is difficult to write well even in one language. Yet a rich body of translingual literature–by authors who write in more than one language or in a language other than their primary one—exists. The Translingual Imagination is a pioneering study of the phenomenon, which is as ancient as the use of Arabic, Latin, Mandarin, Persian, and Sanskrit as linguae francae. Colonialism, war, mobility, and the aesthetics of alienation have combined to create a modern translingual canon. Opening with an overview of this vast subject, Steven G. Kellman then looks at the differences between ambilinguals—those who write authoritatively in more than one language—and monolingual translinguals—those who write in only one language but not their native one. Kellman offers compelling analyses of the translingual situations of African and Jewish authors and of achievements by authors as varied as Antin, Beckett, Begley, Coetzee, Conrad, Hoffman, Nabokov, and Sayles. While separate studies of individual translingual authors have long been available, this is the first in-depth study of the general phenomenon of translingual literature.
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( A penetrating biography of an unheralded master of Amer...)
A penetrating biography of an unheralded master of American fiction. Henry Roth (1906-1995), author of the great immigrant novel Call It Sleep, is one of the giants of American literature, yet for years he has lacked a biography. After completing his first book in 1934, Roth lapsed into a legendary six-decade silence, only to reemerge with Mercy of a Rude Stream, hailed as "a landmark of the American literary century" (David Mehegan, Boston Globe) and "as provocative as anything in the chapters of St. Augustine" (Stefan Kanfer, Los Angeles Times Book Review). In following Roth's tortured life from his childhood on the Jewish Lower East Side to his twilight years in New Mexico, literary critic Steven Kellman has uncovered FBI files, spoken with family members and friends, and gained access to the tape in which Roth discussed the long-buried incest of his youth. Redemption is the Shakespearean saga of a great writer doomed to a life of psychological torment, but saved in the end by his search for deliverance. 16 pages of illustrations.
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Kellman, Steven G. was born on November 15, 1947 in Brooklyn. Son of Max and Pearl (Pomerantz) Kellman.
Bachelor, State University of New York, Binghamton, 1967; Master of Arts, University of California, Berkeley, 1969; Doctor of Philosophy, University of California, Berkeley, 1972.
Assistant professor, Bemidji (Minnesota) State University, 1972-1973;
lecturer, Tel-Aviv U., 1973-1975;
visiting lecturer, University of California, Irvine, 1975-1976;
visiting associate professor, University of California, Berkeley, 1982;
Fulbright senior lecturer, Tbilisi State University, Soviet Georgia, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics, 1980;
assistant professor, University Texas, San Antonio, 1976-1980;
associate professor, University Texas, San Antonio, 1980-1985;
professor comparative literature, University Texas, San Antonio, since 1985;
Ashbel Smith professor, University Texas, San Antonio, since 1995. Columnist, critic The San Antonio Light, 1983-1993. Fiction critic Gettysburg Review, 1991-1993.
Editor literature scene United States of America Today magazine, Valley Stream, New York, since 1985. Film critic San Antonio Current, 1986-1989, 98-, The Texas Observer, since 1989.
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Board editors Jewish Journal San Antonio, since 1987, chairman, 1991-1995. Board directors National Book Critics Circle, since 1996. Advisory humanities Inter-American Book Fair, San Antonio, 1987-1994.
Advisory, judge Texas Film Festival, San Antonio,1986-1987, Cine Festival, San Antonio, 1985-1990. Vice president, board directors Texas Humanities Resource Center, 1991-1992. Delegate Democratic National Convention, 1992.
Member Modern Language Association, National Book Critics Circle (board directors since 1996), Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association American Center, Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association United States of America West.