{"product_id":"9781628921632","title":"Wanderwords Language Migration in American Literature","description":"\u003ch3\u003eNew Horizons in Contemporary Writing\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch1\u003eWanderwords\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch2\u003eLanguage Migration in American Literature\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ch3\u003eMaria Lauret | Bryan Cheyette | Martin Paul Eve\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003eLiterary Criticism \/ American \/ General\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003eHow do (im)migrant writers negotiate their representation of a multilingual world for a monolingual audience? Does their English betray the presence of another language, is that other language erased, or does it appear here and there, on special occasions for special reasons? Do words and meanings wander from one language and one self to another? Do the psychic and cultural worlds of different languages split apart or merge? What is the aesthetic effect of such wandering, splitting, or merging? \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Usually described as “code-switches” by linguists, fragments of other languages have wandered into American literature in English from the beginning. \u003ci\u003eWanderwords\u003c\/i\u003e asks what, in the memoirs, poems, essays, and fiction of a variety of twentieth and twenty first century writers, the function and meaning of such language migration might be. It shows what there is to be gained if we learn to read migrant writing with an eye, and an ear, for linguistic difference and it concludes that, freighted with the other-cultural meanings wrapped up in their different looks and sounds, wanderwords can perform wonders of poetic signification as well as cultural critique. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Bringing together literary and cultural theory with linguistics as well as the theory and history of migration, and with psychoanalysis for its understanding of the  multilingual unconscious, \u003ci\u003eWanderwords\u003c\/i\u003e engages closely with the work of well-known and  unheard-of writers such as Mary Antin and Eva Hoffman, Richard Rodriguez and Junot Díaz, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha and Bharati Mukherjee, Edward Bok and Truus van Bruinessen, Susana Chávez-Silverman and Gustavo Perez-Firmat, Pietro DiDonato and Don DeLillo. In so doing, a poetics of multilingualism unfolds that stretches well beyond translation into the lingual contact zone of English-with-other-languages that is American literature, belatedly re-connecting with the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMaria Lauret \u003c\/b\u003eis Reader in American Literature at the University of Sussex, UK, and has also taught in Spain and the United States. Her previous books are \u003ci\u003eLiberating Literature: Feminist Fiction in America \u003c\/i\u003e(1994), \u003ci\u003eAlice Walker \u003c\/i\u003e(2000, second edition, 2011) and the co-authored \u003ci\u003eBeginning Ethnic American Literatures \u003c\/i\u003e(2001). She is a founding editor of the journal \u003ci\u003eAtlantic Studies \u003c\/i\u003eand currently serves on the editorial advisory boards of \u003ci\u003eThe European Journal of American Culture \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eTextual Practice\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e25 September 2014\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Academic\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Academic\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9781628921632\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eHardback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePage Count: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e344\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWeight (oz): \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e23.2\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51332035117196,"sku":"9781628921632","price":157.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/getimage_e4115dd9-65f7-42fb-9c11-02a3afb60722.jpg?v=1783601092","url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9781628921632","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}