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Category: Special Issue: Migration and Translation

A Special Issue on Migration and Translation

New Article: Liberated from Their Language: Polish Migrant Authors Publishing in English

Joanna Kosmalska Published Online: 2017-12-29 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/culture-2017-0061 Abstract The article opens with a brief analysis of the publishing industry in the UK and Ireland to provide an informed assessment of how difficult it is for Polish...

Cultural and Linguistic Translation of the Self: A Case Study of Multicultural Identity Based on Eva Hoffman’s Lost in Translation

Francesca Maria Frittella Published Online: 2017-12-14 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/culture-2017-0034 Abstract The present article explores the profound impact of intercultural contact on identity, a topic that is gaining in relevance as multicultural experiences become increasingly common in globalised...

Worlds of Transitive Identities. How Translation Becomes Metonymic in Eva Hoffman’s Lost in Translation and Herta Müller’s The Land of Green Plums?

Kamal Sbiri Published Online: 2017-12-14 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/culture-2017-0035 Abstract In studying certain autobiographical narratives of forced migration and exile, the experience of being caught between two worlds is always emphasized. The forced migrant narrative provides different pictures...

Gallery 9 – (Vitrines) A. J. Aalders; (Left, Wall) Alfred Roll; (Right) Ângela Ferreira, Grand Parc - Paul Doumer, Bordeaux, Aquitaine, France, July 5, 2017 | © Courtesy of latitudes-flickr.

New Article: Czesław Miłosz’s Migrant Perspective in Rodzinna Europa [Native Realm]

Ewa Kołodziejczyk Published Online: 2017-12-07 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/culture-2017-0031. Abstract The article traces the impact of Czesław Miłosz’s first American stay on his image of Central Europe in Rodzinna Europa [Native Realm]. In the United States,...

Postsecular Instruments of Acculturation. Czesław Miłosz’s Works from the Second American Stay

Karina Jarzyńska Published Online: 2017-09-20 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/culture-2017-0013 Abstract The article raises the question about the ways in which religious tradition can become an ally in the process of acculturation while serving the modern subject both as...

Nato Fuori Posto: Exploring Placelessness in Dean Serravalle’s “The Buried Tree”

Gianluca Agostinelli Published online: 2017-04-05 | DOI: https://doi.org/ 10.1515/culture-2017-0002 Abstract Building on the seminal scholarship of humanistic geographer, Edward Relph, this paper explores the postmodern notion of placelessness in Canadian-Italian literature. The author argues that...