My Language Is a Jealous Lover bears witness to the frustrations, soul-searching, pain, and joys of embracing another tongue. Adrián N. Bravi weaves together his own experiences as an Argentinian-Italian with the stories of authors who lived and wrote between multiple languages, including Samuel Beckett, Vladimir Nabokov, Ágota Kristóf, and Joseph Brodsky.
My Language Is a Jealous Lover bears witness to the frustrations, soul-searching, pain, and joys of embracing another tongue. Adrián N. Bravi weaves together his own experiences as an Argentinian-Italian with the stories of authors who lived and wrote between multiple languages, including Samuel Beckett, Vladimir Nabokov, Ágota Kristóf, and Joseph Brodsky.
ADRIÁN N. BRAVI was born in Buenos Aires, has lived in Italy since the late 1980s, and is a librarian. He published his first novel in Spanish in 1999 and after a few years started writing in Italian. He has written a number of books, including L’idioma di Casilda Moreira and Quattro novelle sui rattristamenti. His books have been translated into several languages. VICTORIA OFFREDI POLETTO (Senior Lecturer Emerita) and GIOVANNA BELLESIA CONTUZZI (Professor and Chair) have taught and collaborated together in the Department of Italian Studies at Smith College since 1990. They are committed to bringing the voices of migrant and second-generation writers-in particular women writers-to the English-speaking world. Their many translations include Genevieve Makaping’s Reversing the Gaze:What if the Other Were You?, Gabriella Ghermandi’s Queen of Flowers and Pearls, and Cristina Ali Farah’s Little Mother. SHIRIN RAMZANALI FAZEL is a novelist and poet. She was born in Mogadishu to a Somali mother and Pakistani father in 1953, and moved to Novara, Italy, in 1971. Among the first voices of so-called "migration literature" in Italy, Fazel writes in different languages and across different genres, gracefully narrating the benefits and challenges of our transnational reality. She is the author of Far From Mogadishu and Clouds over the Equator. The Forgotten Italians.
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Translators’ Note Preface Introduction 1. Childhood 2. Displacements 3. My Aunt’s Languages 4. The Maternity of Language I 5. The Language of Love 6. The Hospitality of Language 7. The Enemy Language 8. The Possessiveness of Languages 9. The Fluidity of Language 10. Without Style 11. The Scent of the Panther 12. Prisoners of Our Own Language 13. Two Short Stories: Landolfi and Kosztolányi 14. Two Old Children 15. Poetics of Chaos 16. Exile 17. Writing in Another Language 18. False Friends 19. Interference 20. Every Foreigner Is in Their Own Way a Translator 21. Some Cases of Self-Translation 22. Identity and National Language 23. The Language of Death 24. Language as Property 25. The Abandonment of Language 26. The Difficulty of Abandoning One’s Own Language 27. Language as a Line of Defense 28. The Maternity of Language II Notes Bibliography Notes on Contributors
Translators’ Note Preface Introduction 1. Childhood 2. Displacements 3. My Aunt’s Languages 4. The Maternity of Language I 5. The Language of Love 6. The Hospitality of Language 7. The Enemy Language 8. The Possessiveness of Languages 9. The Fluidity of Language 10. Without Style 11. The Scent of the Panther 12. Prisoners of Our Own Language 13. Two Short Stories: Landolfi and Kosztolányi 14. Two Old Children 15. Poetics of Chaos 16. Exile 17. Writing in Another Language 18. False Friends 19. Interference 20. Every Foreigner Is in Their Own Way a Translator 21. Some Cases of Self-Translation 22. Identity and National Language 23. The Language of Death 24. Language as Property 25. The Abandonment of Language 26. The Difficulty of Abandoning One’s Own Language 27. Language as a Line of Defense 28. The Maternity of Language II Notes Bibliography Notes on Contributors
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