Figures of transcontinental multilingualism : [Workshop of the ICLA Research Committee “Mapping Multilingualism in World Literature“, January 17, 2013

This volume investigates outstanding figures and configurations of literary and cultural multilingualism on a transcontinental and on a global scale. Its first focus is on the both subcontinental and transcontinental Indies, on the oxymoronic figure of East West India and on the stirring 'relations through words' in Luso-Afro-Indian, Anglo-Indian, and Indo-European areas. The second focus is on the cross-cultural configuration of East and West shaped by some striking Sino-European and Sino-American events in early modern and modern times. A third issue concerns the glocal and globoglot 'people of paper' in a contemporary Californian town, and, lastly, the all-embracing, all-devouring ouroboros and other multi-lingual ophidians. ( poethik polyglott, Vol. 4) [ Linguistics, Multilingualism] Contents 7 Configuration of the Book • K. Alfons Knauth & Subha Chakraborty Dasgupta 9 Imagining Relation through Words in Amitav Ghosh’s Sea of Poppies • Subha Chakraborty Dasgupta 29 Autour de Les Indes Lézenn d’Édouard Glissant: Entre la Poétique du Voyage et la Poétique de la Relation • Tumba Shango Lokoho 45 The Figure of East West India in History and Literature • K. Alfons Knauth 71 Para um mapa crioulo e sonâmbulo de imbricações luso-afro-indianas • Biagio D’Angelo 105 Mapping Multilinguality in Medieval Indian Literary Culture • T. S. Satyanath 123 Journeys of Myths and Words between Indian and European Cultures • Ramona L. Ceciu 145 Die Anbahnung kultureller und sprachlicher Beziehungen zwischen Europa und China durch den italienischen Jesuiten Matteo Ricci, alias Li Madou • Hans-Georg Grüning 163 Montage as East-West Poetic Configuration. Ezra Pound’s Translation of Chinese Images • Andrés Claro 183 Saturn über El Monte: Salvador Plascencias The People of Paper • Monika Schmitz-Emans 243 La figura universal y multilingüe del dragón-serpiente • Graciela N. Ricci 259 List of Contributors 311