Switching Languages Translingual Writers Reflect on Their Craft

Name: Switching Languages Translingual Writers Reflect on Their Craft
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ISBN: 9780803278073

ISBN-10: 0803278071

ISBN-13: 9780803278073

Edition: 2003

Authors: Steven G. Kellman, Steven Kellman

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Kellman brings together several notable authors from the past 100 years who discuss their personal translingual experiences and their take on a general phenomenon that has not received the attention it deserves.

Book details

List price: $24.00
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Publication date: 4/1/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 340
Size: 7.28" wide x 8.98" long x 0.81" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English



Preface


Kamala Das (1934 -)


An Introduction


Ian Buruma (1951 -)


The Road to Babel


Eighty- First World Esperanto Congress


Manifesto De Prago


The Prague Manifesto (English Translation)


Lï¿½opold Sï¿½dar Senghor (1906-2001)


French, Language of Culture


Gloria Anzaldï¿½a (1942 -)


How to Tame a Wild Tongue


Mary Antin (1881 -1949)


Initiation


Julia Alvarez (1950-)


My English


Ha Jin (1956 -)


Interview with Ha Jin


Andrew Lam (1964 -)


My American Beginning


Chang-Rae Lee (1965 -)


Interview with Chang-Rae Lee


Baal-Makhshoves (1873 -1924)


One Literature in Two Languages


Ilan Stavans (1961 -)


Autobiographical Essay


Esmeralda Santiago (1948 -)


Introduction to Cuando Era Puertorriqueï¿½a


Rosario Ferrï¿½ (1938 -)


Bilingual in Puerto Rico


Luc Sante (1954 -)


Dummy


Ngï¿½gï¿½ Wa Thiong'O (1938 -)


Imperialism of Language: English, a Language for the World?


Gabriel Okara (1921 -)


African Speech... English Words


Chinua Achebe (1930 -)


The African Writer and the English Language


Andrï¿½ Brink (1935 -)


English and the Afrikaans Writer


Hein Willemse (1957 -)


The Black Afrikaans Writer a Continuing Dichotomy


Raja Rao (1909 -)


From the Author's Foreword to Kanthapura


Salman Rushdie (1947 -)


Damme, This is the Oriental Scene for You!


C. J. S. Wallia (1945-)


Response to Salman Rushdie


Gerda Lerner (1920 -)


Living in Translation: Dedicated to My Sister Nora


Arthur Koestler (1905 -1983)


From "Becoming Anglicised"


Gustavo Pï¿½rez Firmat (1949 -)


Dedication


Elias Canetti (1905 -1994)


From the Play of the Eyes


Assia Djebar (1936 -)


From "Writing in the Language of the Other"


Marjorie Agosï¿½n (1955 -)


From "Words: a Basket of Love"


Source Acknowledgments


Index