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Besemeres, Mary – L2 Journal, 2015
With reference to Eva Hoffman's Lost in Translation (1989) and four other texts I examine how translingual writers represent experiences of bringing what Hoffman calls 'terms from elsewhere' into dominant cultural dialogues. Alongside Hoffman's memoir I consider BulgarianFrench philosopher Tzvetan Todorov's "Bilinguisme, dialogisme et…
Descriptors: Dissent, Minority Groups, Multilingualism, Translation