Bilingual Writers on Identity and Creativity
Buch, Englisch, 171 Seiten, Format (B × H): 141 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 241 g
ISBN: 978-0-230-61070-5
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan Us
Many writers work in a language other than their mother tongue. In this collection, writers explore the role that bilingualism has played in their creative lives and their sense of self. Contributors include Anita Desai, Ariel Dorfman, Eva Hoffman, Nuala Ni Dhomnail, Ilan Stavans, Assia Djebar and Yoko Tawanda.
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Various Lives; A.Desai Writing on the Language of the Other; A.Djebar The Wandering Bigamists of Language; A.Dorfman The Im/Possibility of Life-Writing in Two Languages; S.Geok, l.Lim & E.Hoffman The Mask and the Pen; N.Huston Bilingualism, Writing, and the Feeling of Not Quite Being There; S.Malloy Linguistic Ecology: Preventing a Great Loss; N.N. Dhomnail To Write and Eye Words; J.F.A.Oliver Arabic: The Silenced Father-Tongue; L.Sebbar The Drowned Library (Personal Reflections on Found, Lost, and Translated Books and Languages); A.Shammas My Love Affair with Spanglish; I.Stavans Writing in the Web of Words; Y.Tawada Memoirs of a Bilingual Daughter; I.de Courtivron
