Lives in Translation
Subtitle: Bilingual Writers on Identity and Creativity
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: July 18, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9781403960665
Subjects: Bilingualism & multilingualism; Cultural studies; Literary studies: from c 1900 -; Sociolinguistics; Identity (Psychology); Bilingualism; Literature (Specific Aspects); Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy; Psychological aspects; Literary Criticism; Authorship; Composition & Creative Writing - General; General; Literary Criticism & Collections / General; Bilingual authors; Creativity in literature
First sentence: FOR THE SAKE OF SIMPLICITY, I would like to say that I was born in India at a time when it was a meeting place for two cultures, Indian and British, but the truth is that these are merely umbrella terms, for both cultures were split into an infinitely larger number of spokes and panels that came together to form not an elegant object but a conveniently usable one.