My Language Is a Jealous Lover / / Adrián N. Bravi.
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...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2023] ©2023 |
| Year of Publication: | 2023 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Other Voices of Italy
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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