1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910974355803321

Autore

Kellman Steven G. <1947->

Titolo

The translingual imagination / / Steven G. Kellman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lincoln, : University of Nebraska Press, c2000

ISBN

9780803274471

0803274475

9780803219182

0803219180

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (222 p.)

Disciplina

809

Soggetti

Multilingualism and literature

Language and culture

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [119]-125 ) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Cover; Front Flap; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; 1. Translingualism and the Literary Imagination; 2. Pourquoi Translingual?; 3. Translingual Africa; 4. Coetzee Reads Beckett; 5. Nabokov and the Psychomorphology of Zemblan; 6. Eva Hoffman Lost in the Promised Land; 7. Begley Joins the Firm; 8. Sayles Goes Spanish; Epilogue; A Roster of Translingual Authors; Works Cited; Index; Back Flap; Back Cover

Sommario/riassunto

It is difficult to write well even in one language. Yet a rich body of translingual literature-by authors who write in more than one language or in a language other than their primary one-exists. The Translingual Imagination is a pioneering study of the phenomenon, which is as ancient as the use of Arabic, Latin, Mandarin, Persian, and Sanskrit as linguae francae. Colonialism, war, mobility, and the aesthetics of alienation have combined to create a modern translingual canon. Opening with an overview of this vast subject, Steven G. Kellman then looks at the differences between ambilinguals-tho



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910965945003321

Autore

Webber Philip E. <1944->

Titolo

Pella Dutch : portrait of a language in an Iowa community / / Philip E. Webber

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, 2011

ISBN

9781609380663

1609380665

Edizione

[1st University of Iowa Press ed.; an expanded ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxix, 163 pages) : illustrations, map

Collana

Bur Oak Book

Disciplina

439.317

Soggetti

Dutch language - Dialects - Iowa - Pella

English language - Foreign elements - Dutch

Bilingualism - Iowa - Pella

Languages in contact - Iowa - Pella

Dutch - Iowa - Pella

Dutch Americans - Iowa - Pella - Social life and customs

Pella (Iowa) Languages

Pella (Iowa) Social life and customs

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"A Bur Oak book."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preface to the Paperback Edition; Preface; Part One: The People; Pella and Its Speakers; Vestiges of the Bilingual Heritage; Sociolinguistic Investigation in Pella: Selection of Sources; Questionnaire Respondents as Representatives of the Speaker Pool; Language Background; General Patterns of Language Use; Awareness of and Attitudes toward Language Use; Part Two: The Culture; Evolving Attitudes toward Language and Ethnicity; Eendracht Maakt Macht, or: Divide and Be Conquered; Who Are "We" and Who Are "They"?; The World Comes Knocking at the Door; "Surely Thou Art Also One of Them"

pt. 1. The people -- pt. 2. The culture -- pt. 3. The language -- pt. 4. Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

Founded in 1847 by religious separatists, the town of Pella in central Iowa is the state's oldest Dutch American colony, and its crafts, architecture, and celebrations reflect and perpetuate the Dutch heritage



of its earlier residents. Through his intriguing blend of sociolinguistic research, regional history, and interviews with current speakers of Pella Dutch, Philip Webber examines the town's rich cultural and linguistic traditions. Drawing upon formal and informal interviews and conversations with more than 150 speakers of Pella Dutch, Webber uses the met