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The Autobiography of a Language
Andrea Ciribuco
其他書名
Emanuel Carnevali's Italian/American Writing
出版State University of New York Press, 2019-08-01
主題Literary Criticism / American / GeneralLiterary Criticism / European / ItalianSocial Science / Ethnic Studies / General
ISBN14384752689781438475264
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=FDqqDwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋The Autobiography of a Language is an exploration of the deep and powerful ties between language and identity, focusing on an Italian American author and addressing global themes of modern writing. This is the first extensive, book-length work on Emanuel Carnevali (1897–1942), the first Italian American to attain literary recognition. It is a study on how an Italian immigrant to New York became an author and a key figure in transnational modernism. Most importantly, though, it's a study of contacts between American and Italian literatures in the modernist era, and an exploration of the challenges of writing in a second language. Carnevali's works are almost exclusively in English, even though he spent only eight years in the United States before returning to Italy. Combining literary analysis with some of the latest findings in applied linguistics and the study of bilingualism, this book contributes to a very active debate in the fields of comparative literature and translation studies: the implications of translingual writing. Andrea Ciribuco considers both the linguistic and cultural aspects of writing in a second language, examining its potential and pitfalls, and bringing Carnevali's works in touch with the sociocultural context of the great wave of Italian emigration.