num_pages: 297
description: Examining contemporary works of autobiography, fiction, and poetry in English by authors from non-English speaking backgrounds who write as language migrants, Besemeres (Curtin U., Australia) grapples with how a particular self at any time depends for its expression on a particular natural language.
language: English
title: Translating One's Self: Language and Selfhood in Cross-Cultural Autobiography
titlecomplete: Translating One's Self: Language and Selfhood in Cross-Cultural Autobiography (European Connections)
publisher: Peter Lang Publishing