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Switching Languages Shows That The Choice To Write In A Language Other Than One's Home Language Is Not Innocent. It Imbricates An Author's Allegiance And Loyalty To His Or Her Native Language, Identity, History, And Native Discourse Community. This Choice Can Be Both Liberating And Constraining, Elating And Painful. Kellman Has Put Together In This Reader A Rich Mix Of Perspectives And Life Trajectories From Authors Who Write Across Various Languages. Though It Is Difficult Enough To Write Well In One's Native Tongue, An Extraordinary Group Of Authors Has Written Enduring Poetry And Prose In A Second, Third, Or Even Fourth Language. Switching Languages Is The First Anthology In Which Translingual Authors From Throughout The World Examine Their Experiences Writing In More Than One Language Or In A Language Other Than Their Primary One. Driven By Factors As Varied As Migration, Imperialism, A Quest For Verisimilitude, And A Desire To Assert Artistic Autonomy, Translingualism Has A Long And Brilliant History. Proclamations -- Kamala Das -- An Introduction -- Ian Buruma -- The Road To Babel -- Eighty-first World Esperanto Congress-- Manifesto De Prago -- The Prague Manifesto (english T

Author

Steven G. Kellman

Publisher

Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press

Published

2003

Language

EN

ISBN

9780803278073

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Linguistics, Humanities