Displaced women : multilingual narratives of migration in Europe / edited by Lucia Aiello, Joy Charnley and Mariangela Palladino.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Aiello, Lucia, editor.

Charnley, Joy, editor.

Palladino, Mariangela, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Multilingualism.

Psycholinguistics.

Sociolinguistics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (217 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, [England] : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The essays included in this volume mostly originate from the conference organised by the editors at Glasgow Women's Library in March 2012. Language, multilingual narratives and interaction between cultures and languages were key themes of the conference. Interdisciplinary and international, the conference, like this edited volume, brought together specialists working in a range of fields and provided an opportunity for exchanges between historians, sociologists, scientists and literary schola...

Contents:

TABLE OF CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; FOREWORD; DIALOGUE AND OTHERNESS; TEXTUALITY OF MAPS,PHOTOGRAPHS AND IMAGES; NARRATIVES OF RESISTANCE; NARRATING IDENTITY IN NAJAT EL HACHMI'SL'ÚLTIM PATRIARCA; INTERCULTURALMEDIATIONS; TOWARDS THE LITERATUREOF TRANSCULTURAL IDIOMS; I, CHRISTINE, AN ITALIAN WOMAN; MIGRANT WOMEN ACTINGAS INTERCULTURAL MEDIATORS; MEMORY, TRAUMA, TESTIMONY; IN THE LAND OF THE PERPETRATORS; DISPLACED KNOWLEDGE; MIGRATION AND SOCIAL ISSUES; VISITING FRENCH INTERNEESIN SWITZERLAND DURING THE FIRSTWORLDWAR; CLIMATE VARIABILITY AND CHANGE; THEWRITER'S PERSPECTIVE

WRITING IN TWO LANGUAGESNARRATIVES OF SOLIDARITY; DISPLACEDWOMEN; NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed March 29, 2014).

ISBN:

1-4438-5754-8

OCLC:

875097259