bibliomigrancy
bibliomigrancy noun: the movement of books between geographical locations or physical or textual formats.
Noun
bibliomigrancy (plural bibliomigrancies)
- The movement of books between geographical locations or physical or textual formats.
- These transformative forces can be located on the traces of “Bibliomigrancy”: an umbrella term that describes the migration of literary works in the form of books from one part of the world to the other.2012, B. Venkat Mani, “Bibliomigrancy: Book series and the making of world literature”, in Theo D’haen, David Damrosch, Djelal Kadir, editors, The Routledge Companion to World Literature, Routledge...
- The fourth section consists of an empirical study of three cases of French Caribbean translation bibliomigrancy, where the works of Dany Laferrière, Maryse Condé, and Patrick Chamoiseau are analyzed.2019, Yvonne Lindqvist, “Translation bibliomigrancy: the case of contemporary French Caribbean literature in Sweden”, in Meta, volume 64, number 3, page 601
Forms of bibliomigrancy
| plural | bibliomigrancies |
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Origin of bibliomigrancy
Coined by literary critic B. Venkat Mani in 2012, from biblio- + migrancy.
Questions about bibliomigrancy
- What does bibliomigrancy mean?
- Bibliomigrancy means the movement of books between geographical locations or physical or textual formats.
- What part of speech is bibliomigrancy?
- Bibliomigrancy is a noun.
- What is the plural of bibliomigrancy?
- The plural of bibliomigrancy is bibliomigrancies.
Words near bibliomigrancy in the dictionary
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