Nemo Profeta in Patria: Linguistic and Cultural Patterns in Maxim Shrayer’s Waiting for America: a Story of Emigration (2007) and A Russian Immigrant. Three Novellas (2019)
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Shrayer, linguistic transitions, displacement, source language, target languageAbstract
This article analyzes translingual writing in Shrayer’s Waiting for America: A Story of Emigration (2007) and A Russian Immigrant: Three Novellas (2019). It re-maps the writer’s linguistic and cultural transition from Russia to America via Europe, by bringing into focus such concepts as separation, loss and displacement in-between the source language and the target language.
Nemo profeta in patria: modelli linguistici e culturali in Waiting for America: A Story of Emigration(2007) e A Russian Immigrant: Three Novellas (2019) di Maxim D. Shrayer
Questo articolo analizza la scrittura translinguistica in Waiting for America: A Story of Emigration (2007) e A Russian Immigrant: Three Novellas (2019) di Shrayer. Ripercorre la transizione linguistica e culturale dello scrittore dalla Russia all’America attraverso l’Europa, focalizzandosi su concetti come separazione, perdita e disadattamento, tra la lingua di partenza e di arrivo.
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