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Writing outside the nation /
Some of the most innovative writers of contemporary literature are writing in diaspora in their second or third language. Here Azade Seyhan describes the domain of transnational poetics they inhabit. She begins by examining the works of selected bilingual and bicultural writers of the United States...
| Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
©2001.
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| Collection: | Translation/transnation.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
| Résumé: | Some of the most innovative writers of contemporary literature are writing in diaspora in their second or third language. Here Azade Seyhan describes the domain of transnational poetics they inhabit. She begins by examining the works of selected bilingual and bicultural writers of the United States (including Oscar Hijuelos, Maxine Hong Kingston, and Eva Hoffman) and Germany (Libuse Moníková, Rafik Schami, and E.S. Özdamar, among others), developing a new framework for understanding the relationship between displacement, memory, and language. Considering themes of loss, witness, translation. |
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| Description matérielle: | 1 online resource (x, 189 pages) |
| Bibliographie: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-184) and index. |
| ISBN: | 1400814669 9781400814664 9781400823994 1400823994 1283380137 9781283380133 9786613380135 661338013X |