1st Edition

Language, Diaspora, Home Identity and Women’s Linguistic Space-Making

By Heather Robinson Copyright 2023
158 Pages
by Routledge

158 Pages
by Routledge

158 Pages
by Routledge

This book explores language maintenance and development in the linguistic lives of second-, third-, and fourth-generation immigrants as they navigate migration and diaspora, highlighting the role of women in acting as custodians and gate-keepers of family languages towards creating a sense of home. The volume features an interdisciplinary approach, drawing on work from narrative, storytelling,... Read more

Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction: Language, Diaspora, Home; 2. Basement Methodologies: Methods and Motivations; 3. Language in Motion: Mothers, Children, and Linguistic Circulation; 4. “Mending that Wound”: Creating Linguistic Futures in a Diasporic Space; 5. Listen to Your Mother: Home, Migration, and Language; 6. “Particularized Worlds”: Translingual Writing as Borderland Space; 7. “Talk ‘bout Battle fuh Language!”: Disidentification and Memory in the Poetry of Esther Phillips; 8. A flat White and a Banh Mi: Third Spaces, Gender, and Language in the Suburban City; 9. Island Homes; Conclusion; Index

Biography

Heather Robinson is Professor of English at York College/City University of New York. She is the lead co-author of Translingual Identities and Transnational Realities in the U.S. College Classroom (Routledge, 2020) as well as various journal articles and book chapters that have appeared in such varied venues such as Women’s Writing, American Speech, Administrative Theory and Praxis, and Creole Composition: Academic Writing and Rhetoric in the Anglophone Caribbean (2019).