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Record Nr.

UNINA9910464813603321

Titolo

Displaced women : multilingual narratives of migration in Europe / / edited by Lucia Aiello, Joy Charnley and Mariangela Palladino

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newcastle upon Tyne, [England] : , : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-4438-5754-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (217 p.)

Disciplina

306.446

Soggetti

Multilingualism

Psycholinguistics

Sociolinguistics

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

TABLE OF CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; FOREWORD; DIALOGUE AND OTHERNESS; TEXTUALITY OF MAPS,PHOTOGRAPHS AND IMAGES; NARRATIVES OF RESISTANCE; NARRATING IDENTITY IN NAJAT EL HACHMI'SL'ÚLTIM PATRIARCA; INTERCULTURALMEDIATIONS; TOWARDS THE LITERATUREOF TRANSCULTURAL IDIOMS; I, CHRISTINE, AN ITALIAN WOMAN; MIGRANT WOMEN ACTINGAS INTERCULTURAL MEDIATORS; MEMORY, TRAUMA, TESTIMONY; IN THE LAND OF THE PERPETRATORS; DISPLACED KNOWLEDGE; MIGRATION AND SOCIAL ISSUES; VISITING FRENCH INTERNEESIN SWITZERLAND DURING THE FIRSTWORLDWAR; CLIMATE VARIABILITY AND CHANGE; THEWRITER'S PERSPECTIVE

WRITING IN TWO LANGUAGESNARRATIVES OF SOLIDARITY; DISPLACEDWOMEN; NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS

Sommario/riassunto

The essays included in this volume mostly originate from the conference organised by the editors at Glasgow Women's Library in March 2012. Language, multilingual narratives and interaction between cultures and languages were key themes of the conference. Interdisciplinary and international, the conference, like this edited volume, brought together specialists working in a range of fields and



provided an opportunity for exchanges between historians, sociologists, scientists and literary schola...