Transnational Narratives in Englishes of Exile

Contributions by Maria-Sabina Draga Alexandru, Yanoula Athanassakis, Mary Louisa Cappelli, Oana Chivoiu, Christine dAnca, Sanaz Fotouhi, Tim Gauthier, Margarita Georgieva, Winnie Khaw, Hsin-Ju Kuo, Adedoyin Ogunfeyimi, Zheng Da Edited by Catalina Florina Florescu, Sheng-mei Ma

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Publication date:

15 November 2017

Length of book:

284 pages

Publisher

Lexington Books

ISBN-13: 9781498539463

Monolingual, monolithic English is an issue of the past. In this collection, by using cinema, poetry, art, and novels we demonstrate that English has become the heteroglossic language of immigration – Englishes of exile. By appropriating its plural form we pay respect to all those who have been improving standard English, thus proving that one may be born in a language as well as give birth to a language or add to it one’s own version. The story of the immigrant, refugee, exile, expatriate is everybody’s story, and without migration, we could not evolve our human race.

Prologue — Margarita Georgieva
Introduction — Catalina Florina Florescu
1.Mobility, Virality, and Security in Hari Kunzru’s Transmission — Tim Gauthier
2.Mothers Without Frontiers and Their Affective Maps in The Flower Bridge by Thomas Ciulei and Code Unknown by Michael Haneke — Oana Chivoiu
3.Flowering Exile: Chinese Disaspora and Women’s Autobiography — Da Zheng
4.Diasporic Iranian Writing in English — Sanaz Fotouhi
5.Cultural Hermeneutics: Andrei Codrescu as “The Romanian who translated himself into an American” — Christene D’Anca
6.The Forked Tongue of Chinese-English Translation at MSU (Mandarin-Speaking University?), circa 2015 — Sheng-mei Ma
7.El Mundo Zurdo de Gloria Anzaldúa: Healing Sueños of Nepantlera Activism — Mary Louisa Cappelli
8.Transnational Perspectives on Romanian Gender and Ethnic Diversity in Ioana Baetica Morpurgo’s Imigranţii — Maria-Sabina Draga Alexandru
9.Disabling the Binaries, Enabling the Boundaries: Home-Abroad Divide in the European Migration Crisis — Adedoyin Ogunfeyimi
10.“Strike Their Roots into Unaccustomed Earth” in an Era of New Genetics: Diasporic Identity Politics and Genealogy Re-Considered in Jhumpa Lahiri’s “Unaccustomed Earth” — Hsin-Ju Kuo
11.Cracked Spaces in-between Brackets: An Analysis of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s Dictée and Trinh Minh-ha’s elsewhere, within here — Winnie Khaw
12.“[F]oreigners, foreigners, my God”: Language and Cinema in Jean Rhys’s Good Morning, Midnight — Yanoula Athanassakis
13.Mise en abîme with My Immigrants — Catalina Florina Florescu
Epilogue: Immigration, Transformation, Innovation — Maria Hadjipolycarpou

Transnational Narratives in Englishes of Exile is a strong discursive microcosm focused on the concept of global from a counter-colonial transmigrating perspective. Awareness of cultural plurality as expressed via intersecting narrative voices, real or imaginary places, races and genders, just to name some of the aspects involved in this very complex encounter of minds, reveals the extraordinary power of language as hybrid place of ideological exchange. The volume as a whole is much more than a sum of articles aiming to establish an intellectual dialogue through a series of parallel texts: it is the road to that unfolding tomorrow, it opens perspectives towards an upcoming world of hybrid possibilities. Dislocation, represented through various forms of (im)migration, reveals itself as power of transformation and this volume reflects the hardships of the roads that lead to entering into that painful and yet unavoidable alterity.