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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Pepper, Andrew

Titel

Dashiell Hammett’s The Maltese Falcon as World Literature: Global Circuits of Translation, Money, and Exchange

Ist Teil von

• Modern fiction studies, 2020-12, Vol.66 (4), p.702-723

Ort / Verlag

Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2020

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Quelle

Project MUSE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• This essay argues for Dashiell Hammett’s The Maltese Falcon as an example of world literature, following Damrosch’s foundational definition. It considers how The Maltese Falcon circulates in translation and how shifting relationship between source and receiving cultures continually remake the novel and unpick straightforward understandings of ownership. As such, the essay explores the implications of issues arising from two English to French translations of the novel to think about another facet of circulation and another form of exchange: the complicated equivalence between commodities, money, and gold thematized by Hammett and the consequent uncertainties facing the global economy.