Migration as Translation: Maxim D. Shrayer’s Waiting for America and Trespassing Linguistic Checkpoints
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2 juin 2021
- doi: 10.4000/books.apu.19698
- isbn: 9782848323268
- eisbn: 9782848324814
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Rita Filanti, « Migration as Translation: Maxim D. Shrayer’s Waiting for America and Trespassing Linguistic Checkpoints », Artois Presses Université, ID : 10.4000/books.apu.19698
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My private tragedy, which cannot, and indeed should not, be anybody’s concern, is that I had to abandon my natural idiom, my untrammeled, rich, and infinitely docile Russian tongue for a second-rate brand of English, devoid of any of those apparatuses – the baffling mirror, the black velvet backdrop, the implied associations and traditions – which the native illusionist, frac-tails flying, can magically use to transcend the heritage in his own way.(Nabokov, [1956] 1989: 317) In her “Twenty Th...