Where Here Begins: Monolingualism and the Spatial Imagination

In future writings, I will supplement this dissertation with research on the following questions: to what extent were post-structuralism, formalism, New Criticism, and New Historicism---not to mention the "New Formalism"---motivated by dilemmas of, or apprehensions about, multilingual subjectivity? How does gender identity parallel or undermine monolingualism? How can film history---with its enduring debates about synchronization, dubbing, accents, and authentic representation---offer a fruitful counter-context for a nascent discourse about literary multilingualism? How can the texts considered in this dissertation contribute to a language and literature curriculum that critically engages with monolingualism in its historical and textual dimensions?