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Immigrant Writing: Jhumpa Lahiri and Monica Ali
2009
This paper investigates the importance of second-generation immigrant writing in America and England. The main focus is on a theoretical framework concerning the most typical features in migrant literature and on a literary analysis of Lahiri's collection "Interpreter of Maladies" and Ali's famous novel "Brick Lane".
Cultural translationand migration: the literary cases of Jhumpa Lahiri and Leila Aboulela
2011
This article talks about the link between migration and cultural translation within the framework of contemporary immigrant writing - with particular reference to African and Indian literature.
ELF and mixed linguistic varieties in the Sicilian Context of Immigration
2013
This study emerges from recent research within the context of a new Sicily, where the various ethnic groups living there have become ELF users, who appropriate the English language according to their own different native linguabackground. This phenomenon places Sicily in a complex position with regard to the creation of ElL speakers. Specific case-studies will support this paper in testifying to the growth of an ELF mode as a relexfied, hybridised and cannibalised language, which is adapted to the immigrants' linguistic necessities.