The Library
Arabising Italian? Transnational literature as multilingual transaction
Tools
Tools
Tools
Burns, Jennifer (2021) Arabising Italian? Transnational literature as multilingual transaction. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 42 (2). pp. 195-206. doi:10.1080/01434632.2020.1720221 ISSN 0143-4632.
|
PDF
WRAP-Arabising-Italian-transnational-literature-transaction-Burns-2019.pdf - Accepted Version - Requires a PDF viewer. Download (599Kb) | Preview |
Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/01434632.2020.1720221
Abstract
This article investigates what kind of multilingual operations are carried out as migrant and transnational creative writers deploy in their fictions in Italian (often an acquired language) the languages which they hold in their personal repertoires. Exploring first the linguistic, political and cultural implications of what Algerian author, Amara Lakhous, describes as ‘Arabising Italian’, or of reformulating any one standard language by means of another, the discussion proceeds to examine a selection of linguistic strategies deployed by migrant and second-generation writers, which work to expose the creative possibilities of linguistic leakage across any rigid borders drawn around ‘national’ languages and standard forms. Analysis of these forms of translanguaging highlights the linguistic and cultural processes by which subnational, national and transnational forms of Italian may be combined in order both to engage readers in the active creative practice of multilingual social interaction and to challenge the hegemony of standard language and of ‘national’ cultures and literatures. The article demonstrates how transnational narratives counter the ‘monolingual paradigm’ (Yildiz 2012) and how, through drawing attention to and practising non-normative uses of the standard language, multilingual creative writing functions as a privileged site of linguistic, cultural – and so, political – transaction.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Subjects: | P Language and Literature > P Philology. Linguistics P Language and Literature > PC Romance languages P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) P Language and Literature > PQ Romance literatures |
||||||||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > School of Modern Languages and Cultures > Italian Faculty of Arts > School of Modern Languages and Cultures |
||||||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Translanguaging (Linguistics), Multilingualism and literature , Italian literature -- Arab influences, Second language acquisition, Italian language | ||||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development | ||||||||||
| Publisher: | Taylor & Francis | ||||||||||
| ISSN: | 0143-4632 | ||||||||||
| Official Date: | January 2021 | ||||||||||
| Dates: |
|
||||||||||
| Volume: | 42 | ||||||||||
| Number: | 2 | ||||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 195-206 | ||||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1080/01434632.2020.1720221 | ||||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||||
| Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): | “This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development on 29/01/2020, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/01434632.2020.1720221 | ||||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 2 September 2019 | ||||||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 29 July 2021 | ||||||||||
| RIOXX Funder/Project Grant: |
|
||||||||||
| Related URLs: |
Request changes or add full text files to a record
Repository staff actions (login required)
 |
View Item |
Downloads
Downloads per month over past year
