My Language Is a Jealous Lover /

"Have you ever wondered why your mother tongue never truly lets you go? Even when you achieve mastery in other languages? How you are her prisoner from those very first babblings, even before you learn to speak? Bravi, himself an Argentinian-Italian, will take you on a fascinating journey -his...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Bravi, Adrián N., 1963- (Autor)
Otros Autores: Poletto, Victoria Offredi (Traductor), Bellesia, Giovanna (Traductor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Italiano
Publicado: New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [2023]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Second language acquisition.
Authorship > Psychological aspects.
Bilingual authors > Language.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Childhood
  • Displacements
  • My aunt's languages
  • The maternity of language I
  • The language of love
  • The hospitality of language
  • The enemy language
  • The possessiveness of languages
  • The fluidity of language
  • Without style
  • The scent of the panther
  • Prisoners of our own language
  • Two short stories: Landolfi and Kosztolányi
  • Two old children
  • Poetics of chaos
  • Exile
  • Writing in another language
  • False friends
  • Interference
  • Every foreigner is in their own way a translator
  • Some cases of self-translation
  • Identity and national language
  • The language of death
  • Language as property
  • The abandonment of language
  • The difficulty of abandoning one's own language
  • Language as a line of defense
  • The maternity of language II.

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