Explorations Of Exile Bilingualism And Identity In The Autobiographical Works Of Nancy Huston And Eva Hoffman

Author : Kathrin Marisa Leimig
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3640839447
Total Pages : 41 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Explorations of Exile, Bilingualism and Identity in the Autobiographical Works of Nancy Huston and Eva Hoffman written by Kathrin Marisa Leimig and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2011-03 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essay from the year 2008 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: Globalization, Political Economics, grade: 2.0, University of Southampton (School of Humanities), course: Cultural Flows, language: English, abstract: The postmodern notions of exile and displacement are contested among scholars as their applications constantly undergo further transformation and modification. Especially the effects of globalization, including economic mass migration and other transnational population movements, have contributed to add a multiplicity of variations to their original denotation. Whilst in Greco-Roman Antiquity exile was coined as label for an individual banishment from a centre of civilization, in a postmodern context it refers to both a voluntary or involuntary human condition. Yet, beyond doubt, one must clearly distinguish between the different exilic experiences of various groups such as refugees, expatriates, émigrés, emigrants and so on because they differ in modalities and circumstances: it is obvious that enforced political displacement under harsh conditions and to an undesired place has a much more traumatic impact on self-identity than, for example, a planned migration for economic reasons. Yet exile was never a unitary category as it can refer to specific social and political conditions. Even though it is often used as an umbrella term, the motivations or direct causes to leave one's country of origin can be as manifold as the various exilic realities in the host countries. Still, what all exiles have in common is the fact that they leave behind their home country in exchange for a life abroad. Nevertheless, in this context there are two questions that are crucial: has the exile chosen to leave or was s/he forced to do so? And is s/he part of a safety net or does s/he come to the host country unprotected?

Author : Eva Hoffman
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0140127739
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lost in Translation written by Eva Hoffman and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1990-03-01 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A marvelously thoughtful book . . . It is not just about emigrants and refugees. It is about us all.” –The New York Times When her parents brought her from the war-ravaged, faded elegance of her native Cracow in 1959 to settle in well-manicured, suburban Vancouver, Eva Hoffman was thirteen years old. Entering into adolescence, she endured the painful pull of nostalgia and struggled to express herself in a strange unyielding new language. Her spiritual and intellectual odyssey continued in college and led her ultimately to New York’s literary world yet still she felt caught between two languages, two cultures. But her perspective also made her a keen observer of an America in the flux of change. A classically American chronicle of upward mobility and assimilation. Lost in Translation is also an incisive meditation on coming to terms with one’s own uniqueness, on learning how deeply culture affects the mind and body, and finally, on what it means to accomplish a translation of one’s self.

Author : Eva Hoffman
Publisher : Paw Prints
ISBN 13 : 9781439514139
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lost in Translation written by Eva Hoffman and published by Paw Prints. This book was released on 2008-07-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author describes her efforts to adjust to a new culture after her parents, Holocaust survivors from Poland, moved the family from war-ravaged Cracow to North America when she was thirteen years old

Author : Eva C. Karpinski
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
ISBN 13 : 1554583993
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Borrowed Tongues written by Eva C. Karpinski and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Borrowed Tongues is the first consistent attempt to apply the theoretical framework of translation studies in the analysis of self-representation in life writing by women in transnational, diasporic, and immigrant communities. It focuses on linguistic and philosophical dimensions of translation, showing how the dominant language serves to articulate and reinforce social, cultural, political, and gender hierarchies. Drawing on feminist, poststructuralist, and postcolonial scholarship, this study examines Canadian and American examples of traditional autobiography, autoethnography, and experimental narrative. As a prolific and contradictory site of linguistic performance and cultural production, such texts challenge dominant assumptions about identity, difference, and agency. Using the writing of authors such as Marlene NourbeSe Philip, Jamaica Kincaid, Laura Goodman Salverson, and Akemi Kikumura, and focusing on discourses through which subject positions and identities are produced, the study argues that different concepts of language and translation correspond with particular constructions of subjectivity and attitudes to otherness. A nuanced analysis of intersectional differences reveals gender, race, ethnicity, nationality, culture, and diaspora as unstable categories of representation.

Author : Mary Besemeres
Publisher : Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
ISBN 13 : 9783906766980
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Translating One's Self written by Mary Besemeres and published by Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study explores ways in which a person's inner world may differ from one language and culture to another, and how immigrants into a new language are challenged to become different persons. The book's focus on cross-cultural autobiography allows it to challenge some influential theoretical approaches in literature to the relationship between language and identity, through a close study of contemporary experiences of 'language migration'. Each of the seven chapters considers the work of a major contemporary bilingual author. Life-writing by 'migrants into English' such as Eva Hoffman, Andrew Riemer, Maxine Hong Kingston and Vladimir Nabokov shows that entering a new language involves 'translating one's self', losing part of one's emotional and conceptual world in the process. This translingual and transcultural experience is an increasingly important feature of the modern world. This book gives full attention to this experience. It provides the first in-depth study of Eva Hoffman's trailblazing <I>Lost in Translation, and connects cross-cultural memoirs by authors like Richard Rodriguez and Andrew Riemer to the work of translingual writers as distinct as Kazuo Ishiguro and Czeslaw Milosz.

Author : Frances Bartkowski
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 0816623627
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Travelers, Immigrants, Inmates written by Frances Bartkowski and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Travelers, Immigrants, Inmates was first published in 1995. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. Identities are always mistaken; yet they are as necessary as air to sustain life in and among communities. Frances Bartkowski uses travel writings, U.S. immigrant autobiographies, and concentration camp memoirs to illustrate how tales of dislocation present readers with a picture of the complex issues surrounding mistaken identities. In turn, we learn much about the intimate relation between language and power. Combining psychoanalytic and political modes of analysis, Bartkowski explores the intertwining of place and the construction of identities. The numerous writings she considers include André Gide's Voyage to the Congo, Eva Hoffman's Lost in Translation, Sandra Cisneros's House on Mango Street, Zora Neale Hurston's Dust Tracks on a Road and Tell My Horse, and Primo Levi's Survival in Auschwitz. Elegantly written and incisive, Travelers, Immigrants, Inmates stands at the crossroads of contemporary discussions about ethnicity, race, gender, nationalism, and the politics and poetics of identity. It has much to offer readers interested in questions of identity and cultural differences. Frances Bartkowski is associate professor of English and director of women's studies at Rutgers University in Newark. She is the author of Feminist Utopias (1989).

Author : Anne Luyat
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789004483477
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Flight from Certainty written by Anne Luyat and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Magda Stroinska
Publisher : Peter Lang Pub Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9783631394847
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Exile, Language and Identity written by Magda Stroinska and published by Peter Lang Pub Incorporated. This book was released on 2003 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Exile' means a prolonged, usually enforced absence from one's home or country. There is no paradigm for an exilic existence and no prescription of how to heal the loss of one's home and one's identity. Exiles move in space, migrating from one place to another, but they are trapped in time. They long for what they have lost and fear what is yet to come. Like the Roman god Janus, they constantly look both ways, often lacking language that would help them to reconnect with the world. This volume examines the process of the exile's self-translation by rediscovering a way of expression for the ensnared experience. It requires a new language so that the self may take a new shape. By discussing the unavoidable losses wrought upon immigrants, exiles and refugees by the mere fact of being displaced, the authors hope to foster a better understanding of these problems and help to rebuild shattered identities and ruined lives.

Author : Paul Allatson
Publisher : Brill
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Exile Cultures, Misplaced Identities written by Paul Allatson and published by Brill. This book was released on 2008 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exile Cultures, Misplaced Identities takes a transnational and transcultural approach to exile and its capacities to alter the ways we think about place and identity in the contemporary world. The edited collection brings together researchers on exile in international perspective from three continents who explore questions of exilic identity along multiple geopolitical and cultural axes--Cuba, the USA and Australia; Colombia and the USA; Algeria and France; Italy, France and Mexico; non-Han minorities and Han majorities in China; China, Tibet and India; Japan and China; New Caledonia, Vietnam and France; Hungary, the USSR, and Australia; and Germany, before and after unification. The international and crosscultural span of this collection represents an important addition to the fields of exile criticism and cultural identity studies. Exile Cultures, Misplaced Identities will be of interest to readers, scholars and students of exile, diasporic and transmigration studies, international studies, postcolonial studies, cultural studies, language studies, and comparative literary studies.

Author : Susana Chávez-Silverman
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 9780299202200
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Killer Crónicas written by Susana Chávez-Silverman and published by University of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2004-10-11 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A woman living and communicating in multiple lands, Susana Chávez-Silverman conveys her cultural and linguistic displacement in humorous, bittersweet, and even tangible ways in this truly bilingual literary work. These meditative and lyrical pieces combine poignant personal confession, detailed daily observation, and a memorializing drive that shifts across time and among geocultural spaces. The author’s inventive and flamboyant use of Spanglish, a hybrid English-Spanish idiom, and her adaptation of the confessional "crónica" make this memoir compelling and powerful. Killer Crónicas confirms that there is no Latina voice quite like that of Susana Chávez-Silverman. Includes a chapter that was awarded first prize in El Andar magazine’s Chicano Literary Excellence Contest in the category of personal memoir.