My Language Is a Jealous Lover / / Adrián N. Bravi.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2023 English
• VerfasserIn: Bravi, Adrián N.,
• MitwirkendeR: Bellesia Contuzzi, Giovanna,; Contuzzi, Giovanna Bellesia,; Fazel, Shirin Ramzanali,; Poletto, Victoria Offredi,
• Place / Publishing House: New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Series: Other Voices of Italy
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (158 p.)

Many great writers have been fluent in multiple languages but have never been able to escape their mother tongue. Yet if a native language feels like home, an adopted language sometimes offers a hospitality one cannot find elsewhere. My Language Is a Jealous Lover explores the plights and successes of authors who lived and wrote in languages other than their mother tongue, from Samuel Beckett and Vladimir Nabokov to Ágota Kristóf and Joseph Brodsky. Author Adrián N. Bravi weaves their stories in with his own experiences as an Argentinian-Italian, thinking and writing in the language of his new life while recalling that of his childhood. Bravi bears witness to the frustrations, the soul-searching, the pain, and the joys of embracing another language.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Translators’ Note: Some Challenges in Translating Exophonic Authors -- Foreword: Living and Writing between and across Multiple Languages -- Introduction -- 1 • Childhood -- 2 • Displacements -- 3 • My Aunt’s Languages -- 4 • The Maternity of Language I -- 5 • The Language of Love -- 6 • The Hospitality of Language -- 7 • The Enemy Language -- 8 • The Possessiveness of Languages -- 9 • The Fluidity of Language -- 10 • Without Style -- 11 • The Scent of the Panther -- 12 • Prisoners of Our Own Language -- 13 • Two Short Stories: Landolfi and Kosztolányi -- 14 • Two Old Children -- 15 • Poetics of Chaos -- 16 • Exile -- 17 • Writing in Another Language -- 18 • False Friends -- 19 • Interference -- 20 • Every Foreigner Is in Their Own Way a Translator -- 21 • Some Cases of Self-Translation -- 22 • Identity and National Language -- 23 • The Language of Death -- 24 • Language as Property -- 25 • The Abandonment of Language -- 26 • The Difficulty of Abandoning One’s Own Language -- 27 • Language as a Line of Defense -- 28 • The Maternity of Language II -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Notes on Contributors