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Gramsci, Language,and Translation

Edited byPeter Ives and Rocco Lacorte

LEXINGTON BOOKSA division of

ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS, INC.Lanham • Boulder • New York • Toronto • Plymouth, UK

Contents

Abbreviations of Works by Antonio Gramsci ix

Acknowledgments xi

Introduction: Translating Gramsci on Language, Translationand Politics 1

Peter Ives and Rocco Lacorte

Part I: Gramsci's Linguistics and Gramsci's Marxism

1 The Linguistic Roots of Gramsci's Non-Marxism 19Franco Lo Piparo

2 Linguistics and Marxism in the Thought ofAntonio Gramsci 29Luigi Rosiello

3 Language from Nature to History: More on Gramscithe Linguist 51Tullio De Mauro

4 Linguistics and the Political Question of Language 63Stefano Gemini

5 Gramsci the Linguist 81Utz SAaas

6 Gramsci from One Century to Another 101Interview with Edoardo Sanguineti by Giorgio Baratta

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Part II: Language, Translation, Politics and Culture

7 Translation and Translatability: Renewal of theMarxist Paradigm 107Derek Boothman

8 Aunt Alene on Her Bicycle: Antonio Gramsci as Translatorfrom German and as Translation Theorist 135Lucia Borghese

9 On "Translatability" in Gramsci's Prison Notebooks 171Fabio Frosini

10 Translations and Metaphors in Gramsci 187Maurizio Lichtner

11 Translatability, Language and Freedom in Gramsci'sPrison Notebooks 213Rocco Lacorte

Part III: Politics, Theory and Method

12 Language and Politics in Gramsci 227Francisco F. Buey

13 Gramsci's Subversion of the Language of Politics 243Anne Showstack Sassoon

14 Some Notes on Gramsci the Linguist 255Tullio De Mauro

15 The Lexicon of Gramsci's Philosophy of Praxis 267Andre Tosel

16 Subalternity and Language: Overcoming the Fragmentationof Common Sense 289Marcus E. Green and Peter Ives

Index 313

About the Contributors 323