Dangerous Language — Esperanto under Hitler and Stalin

Inbunden, Engelska, 2017

Av Ulrich Lins

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This volume is complemented by the sister volume Dangerous Language - Esperanto and the Decline of Stalinism which offers a concentration on the Cold War history of Esperanto in Eastern Europe.

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Utgivningsdatum2017-02-20
Mått148 x 210 x 24 mm
Vikt532 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor299
Upplaga17001
FörlagPalgrave Macmillan
ISBN9781137549167
ÖversättareTonkin, Humphrey

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Ulrich Lins received his doctorate at the University of Cologne, Germany, with a dissertation on Japanese nationalism (published in 1976). For thirty years he worked for DAAD, the German Academic Exchange Service in its headquarters in Bonn, and served two tours of duty as head of its office in Tokyo. He has edited numbers of books in German and Japanese on German-Japanese relations and on Germany following reunion. The present volume, written originally in Esperanto, has appeared in German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Russian, and Lithuanian translations.Humphrey Tonkin is President Emeritus of the University of Hartford, USA, where he served as University Professor of Humanities. He studied English and comparative literature at Cambridge and Harvard (Ph.D. 1966) and has written widely on literary topics and on international education and language policy. He has published numbers of translations from English to Esperanto and from Esperanto to English.

PART I: A SUSPICIOUS NEW LANGUAGE.- Chapter 1: The Emergence of Esperanto.- Chapter 2: War and its Aftermath.- PART II: ‘LANGUAGE OF JEWS AND COMMUNISTS’.- Chapter 3: The Rise of a New Enemy.- Chapter 4: ‘An Ally of World Jewry’.- PART III: ‘LANGUAGE OF PETTY BOURGEOIS AND COSMOPOLITANS’.- Chapter 5: Finding a Place for Esperanto in the Soviet Union.- Chapter 6: Schism and Collapse.- Chapter 7: Socialism and International Language.

“Humphrey Tonkin’s English translation of Ulrich Lins’ work … offers a comprehensive analysis of the advent and diffusion of the International Language, charting its development from the embryonic wrangling of creator Lazar Zamenhof amidst the pogroms of the Russian Empire, to the language’s reactionary reception by Nazi and Soviet authorities. … Lins explores the invented language’s history methodically and intimately, resulting in a text that is admirably accessible to the interested layperson and the invested academic alike.” (David Selfe, The Kelvongrove Review, Issue 16, June, 2017)