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Where There Is Danger

Häftad, Engelska, 2019

AvLuba Jurgenson

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Winner of the 2015 Prix Valery LarbaudWriter, professor, translator and editor Luba Jurgenson lives between two languages—her native Russian and her adopted French. She recounts the coexistence of these two languages, as well as two bodies and two worlds, in an autobiographical text packed with fascinating anecdotes.Living bilingually can be uncomfortable, but this strange in-between state can equally serve as a refuge and inspire creativity. Jurgenson sheds light on this little-explored territory with lively prose and a keen awareness of her historical and literary context. Language, identity, translation, and the self: all are intertwined. The ceaseless journey of bilingualism is at last revealed.

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Utgivningsdatum2019-12-05
Mått152 x 228 x 6 mm
Vikt172 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieJews of Russia & Eastern Europe and Their Legacy
Antal sidor104
FörlagAcademic Studies Press
ISBN9781644690390
ÖversättareMeredith Sopher
UtmärkelserWinner of Prix Valery Larbaud 2015 (France)

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Luba Jurgenson is Professor of Russian Literature and specializes in representations of mass violence in East and Central Europe. She also serves as Director of the research centre Eur’ORBEM at the Sorbonne and as an editorial board member for the journal Memories at Stake. Meredith Sopher studied French-English Translation and Interpretation at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey. She currently works as a freelance translator and interpreter in France.

“In the first essay of her collection Where There IsDanger, Luba Jurgenson writes, ‘Bilingualism is waiting for its chronicler,someone down-to-earth who follows each step of the bodily clues to theconstantly shifting center.’ As such a chronicler, she makes striking metaphorsof history, language, the body, and the diaspora, hoping to understand thestrange reality of being a citizen of two languages and their cultures. … Jurgenson’svoice sounds cohesive and aware, and she interrogates language to examine theorigins of thought and purpose. French and Russian have history embedded withintheir words, should someone care to parse it. In such acts of dissection andrevivification, Where There Is Danger is at its brightest.” —Camille-YvetteWelsch, Foreword Reviews