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Spanish and Portuguese Language and Literature
Technological University Dublin
CALL: Irish Journal for Culture, Arts, Literature and Language
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- Hispanic immigrant literature; code-switching; Spanglish; bilingualism; language and identity; representation; borders (1)
- Migration; Italy and Argentina; translation of essays; Italian language and literature; construction of memory (1)
- Spanish Civil War; France; exile; Republican diaspora; literature and historical memory (1)
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The Construction Of The Memory Of Italy In Argentina Through A Choice Of Translated Essays, Maria Belén Hernández-González
The Construction Of The Memory Of Italy In Argentina Through A Choice Of Translated Essays, Maria Belén Hernández-González
CALL: Irish Journal for Culture, Arts, Literature and Language
As a country of immigrants, Argentina assimilated several languages in its idiolect. The languages spoken by the majority of newcomers were amalgamated with Spanish. In this respect, the birth of Argentina as an independent nation is connected to migration and translation. In fact, in Argentina, exiled or immigrant Spanish and Italian writers earned their living primarily as translators for publishers and journals, and in many cases their work was of outstanding quality. As part of an ongoing research project entitled "Essay, cultural memory and translation in Sur (1931-1970)", this paper reveals a particular interpretation of Italian culture through the translations …
The Choral Intensification Of A Chronotope, Lluís Muntada Vendrell
The Choral Intensification Of A Chronotope, Lluís Muntada Vendrell
CALL: Irish Journal for Culture, Arts, Literature and Language
According to an ancient constant, literature can be regarded as a struggle against oblivion, as an attempt to preserve individual and collective memory. On the grounds of the Pragmatics of Literature, we can consider that the processes of (re)construction of the literary memory of rootlessness, exile, persecution and imprisonment reveal two basic types of creative models: the objective description of reality and a plausible fictionality. This paper focuses on the first of these two creative models through the exploration and critical analysis of the book Allez! Allez!, which contains a set of texts by several authors compiled by Professor …
"Dad, Yo Soy Una Chica Americana": Migration, Identity And Language In Eduardo González Viaña's El Corrido De Dante, Fredrik Olsson
"Dad, Yo Soy Una Chica Americana": Migration, Identity And Language In Eduardo González Viaña's El Corrido De Dante, Fredrik Olsson
CALL: Irish Journal for Culture, Arts, Literature and Language
The focus of this article is the representation of language and identity in Hispanic immigrant literature. It provides a framework for the analysis of linguistic and cultural constructions of migrant identities in literary texts, on the basis of the exploration of the novel El Corrido de Dante, by Eduardo González Viaña. The most significant finding is that González Viaña applies linguistic homogenization in order to stress a common Hispanic identity without effacing cultural, national and ethnic differences, as these are stylistically marked by means of strategic (re)creations of different varieties of Spanish and instances of code-switching between Spanish and English …