Exile, language and identity

The Editors: Magda Stroińska teaches German and Linguistics at McMaster University, Canada and is a research fellow at Kingston University, UK. Her research focuses on sociolinguistics, cross-cultural communication, cultural stereotyping, and propaganda. Her current project involves the effects of totalitarian propaganda in post-communist Eastern Europe.Vittorina Cecchetto teaches Italian and Linguistics at McMaster University, Canada. Her research interests include the linguistic and identity problems encountered by immigrants and didactic stereotyping in second language acquisition. In addition she has authored pedagogical materials for second language acquisition.

• Contents: Magda Stroińska/Vittorina Cecchetto: Introduction – Mary Besemeres: Cultural translation and the translingual self in the memoirs of Edward Said and André Aciman – Claire Burke: Exile from the inner self or from society? A dilemma in the works of Max Frisch – Ruth Burke: Persephone as paradigm: Fictional exiles in postcolonial francophone literature – Chantal Abouchar: Albert Memmi’s Agar: The paradox of the couple – Andrea Rinke: German films in a German exile – Magda Stroińska: The role of language in the re-construction of identity in exile – Natalia E. Rulyova: Joseph Brodsky: Exile, language and metamorphosis – Annabel Cox: Achy Obeja’s «Sugarcane» and Cuban-American bilingual literature: Language choices and cultural identities – Branka Popovic: The problem of identity and language in refugees from the (former)Yugoslavia – Vittorina Cecchetto: From immigrant to exile: Does language contribute to this process? – Anthony Purdy: Collage and chronotope in Régine Robin’s La Québécoite – Iris Bruce: Deutschland, Deutschland über Alles: Sprechen, schreiben, schweigen – Catherine Reuben: Exile, identity and memory: the boundaries of perception – Maroussia Hajdukowski-Ahmed: At the borders of language, language without borders: Non-verbal forms of communication of women survivors of torture.