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Postcolonial Brittany: Literature between Languages
Contributor(s): Chambers, Helen (Other), Williams, Heather (Author)

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 ISBN: 3039105566     ISBN-13: 9783039105564
Publisher: Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publis
OUR PRICE: $71.56  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: April 2007
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Anthropology - General
- Literary Criticism | European - French
Dewey: 891
LCCN: 2007451739
Series: Cultural Identity Studies
Physical Information: 0.42" H x 6" W x 9" L (0.59 lbs) 194 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - French
Features: Bibliography, Index
 
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Publisher Description:
This book investigates the space between the two languages of modern-day Brittany through a series of close readings of literary texts that represent Brittany or Bretonness in the French language. This is the space that is negotiated by translation, be it a smooth translation of Breton scenes and themes into a French fit for the salons of the capital, or a foreignizing translation of Breton motifs into a French that writhes and struggles to accommodate them. It is also the space negotiated by the bilingual author who writes in the shadow of the other language: the literary conventions of one may litter his work in the other, or the idioms and syntax of one may make their ghostly presence felt in the other. But it can equally be a space of violence as in the case of the writer whose whole community has lost its mother tongue, and writes under protest in the language of the cultural oppressor or colonizer. As the first sustained analysis of the literature produced between French and Breton, this book shows us how literary language is affected by such inter-cultural tensions, and also what it can mean to be caught between cultures.
 
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