It Isn't Their Language in Which I Speak Their Stories”
Language, Memory, and “Unforgetting” in Susan Rubin Suleiman's Budapest Diary: In Search of the Motherbook and Anca Vlasopolos's No Return Address: A Memoir of Displacement
Datos Bibliográficos
| ID | 12179440 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Szidonia Haragos (0000-0001-5761-487X, Zayed University, autor de correspondencia), Szidonia H Haragos (Zayed University) |
| Año | 2016 |
| Volumen | 31 |
| Número | 2 |
| Páginas | 309-332 |
| Fecha de publicación | 2016-03-22 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sí |
| Open Access | No |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Revista | a/b Auto/Biography Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores de la revista | ISSN: 0898-9575 • E-ISSN: 2151-7290 |
| Editorial | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/08989575.2016.1138356 |
| OpenAlex | W2324223631 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citas recibidas | 1 |
| Referencias citadas | 25 |
In this article, the author looks at two representative post-communist autobiographical narratives, Susan Rubin Suleiman's Budapest Diary: In Search of the Motherbook (1996) and Anca Vlasopolos's No Return Address: A Memoir of Displacement (2000). The author considers the linguistic aspects of accessing a traumatic past and the possibility of successful returns, via another language (English), to the site of memory. The author posits that the narratives aim at restorative gestures of reconstructing the national past along the lines of minority presences and discourses in Hungary and Romania, respectively. Their contributions to the larger post-communist memory work in these two countries become significant through the mediation, from outside the national borders, of alternative memories that challenge a finite, conclusive narrative of the history of communisms in East-Central Europe. By employing English for the articulation of their particular truths, they highlight the new functionality of English as a current lingua franca in a geopolitical space marked by its historical absence
Art · Art history · Articulation (sociology · Communism · Cultural memory · Geopolitics · Lingua franca · Linguistics · Literature · Mediation · Memoir · Narrative · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Anthropology · Balkans: History, Politics, Society · History · Law · Multilingual Education and Policy · Philosophy · Translation Studies and Practices
Reading autobiography
Trauma
Budapest Diary
No Return Address
Writing Outside the Nation
Nomadic subjects
Giving an Account of Oneself
How Our Lives Become Stories
Giving an Account of Oneself
The 1.5 Generation
Post-Communist life writing and the discourses of history
Millennial politics of architecture
Writing history, writing trauma
The Legacies of 1989
We Would Not Have Come Without You
Bilingualism With and Without Diglossia; Diglossia With and Without Bilingualism
Fake Farsi
Communism
| Obras citantes distintas | 1 |
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| Citas por año | 0,17 |
| Intervalo de citas | 2020 - 2020 (1) |
| Velocidad de citación | historical |
| Altamente citado | No |
| Tipos de cita | Neutras: 1 |