Wanderwords
Language Migration in American Literature
How do (im)migrant writers negotiate their representation of a multilingual world for a monolingual audience? Does their English betray the presence of another language, is that other language erased, or does it appear here and there, on special occasions for special reasons? Do words and meanings wander from one language and one self to another? Do the psychic and cultural worlds of different languages split apart or merge? What is the aesthetic effect of such wandering, splitting, or merging? Usually described as code-switches by linguists, fragments of other languages have wandered into American literature in English from the beginning. W…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-62892-165-6
- EAN: 9781628921656
- Produktnummer: 29845733
- Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 320 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 3'127 KB
Über den Autor
Maria Lauret is Reader in American Literature at the University of Sussex, UK, and has also taught in Spain and the United States. Her previous books are Liberating Literature: Feminist Fiction in America (Routledge 1994), Alice Walker (Palgrave MacMillan, 2000, second edition, 2011) ) and the co-authored Beginning Ethnic American Literatures (Manchester University Press 2001). She is a founding editor of the journal Atlantic Studies (Routledge/Taylor and Francis), has published on feminism and film, postcolonialism, African American Literature and Michelle Obama and currently serves on the editorial advisory boards of The European Journal of American Culture and Textual Practice.
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