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The Autobiography of a Language: Emanuel Carnevali's Italian/American Writing
The Autobiography of a Language is an exploration of the deep and powerful ties between language and identity, focusing on an Italian American author and addressing global themes of modern writing. This is the first extensive, book-length work on Emanuel Carnevali (1897–1942), the first Italian American to attain literary recognition. It is a study on how an Italian immigrant to New York became an author and a key figure in transnational modernism. Most importantly, though, it's a study of contacts between American and Italian literatures in the modernist era, and an exploration of the challenges of writing in a second language. Carnevali's works are almost exclusively in English, even though he spent only eight years in the United States before returning to Italy. Combining literary analysis with some of the latest findings in applied linguistics and the study of bilingualism, this book contributes to a very active debate in the fields of comparative literature and translation studies: the implications of translingual writing. Andrea Ciribuco considers both the linguistic and cultural aspects of writing in a second language, examining its potential and pitfalls, and bringing Carnevali's works in touch with the sociocultural context of the great wave of Italian emigration.
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The Autobiography of a Language: Emanuel Carnevali's Italian/American Writing
The Autobiography of a Language is an exploration of the deep and powerful ties between language and identity, focusing on an Italian American author and addressing global themes of modern writing. This is the first extensive, book-length work on Emanuel Carnevali (1897–1942), the first Italian American to attain literary recognition. It is a study on how an Italian immigrant to New York became an author and a key figure in transnational modernism. Most importantly, though, it's a study of contacts between American and Italian literatures in the modernist era, and an exploration of the challenges of writing in a second language. Carnevali's works are almost exclusively in English, even though he spent only eight years in the United States before returning to Italy. Combining literary analysis with some of the latest findings in applied linguistics and the study of bilingualism, this book contributes to a very active debate in the fields of comparative literature and translation studies: the implications of translingual writing. Andrea Ciribuco considers both the linguistic and cultural aspects of writing in a second language, examining its potential and pitfalls, and bringing Carnevali's works in touch with the sociocultural context of the great wave of Italian emigration.
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The Autobiography of a Language: Emanuel Carnevali's Italian/American Writing

The Autobiography of a Language: Emanuel Carnevali's Italian/American Writing

by Andrea Ciribuco
The Autobiography of a Language: Emanuel Carnevali's Italian/American Writing
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The Autobiography of a Language: Emanuel Carnevali's Italian/American Writing

by Andrea Ciribuco

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The Autobiography of a Language is an exploration of the deep and powerful ties between language and identity, focusing on an Italian American author and addressing global themes of modern writing. This is the first extensive, book-length work on Emanuel Carnevali (1897–1942), the first Italian American to attain literary recognition. It is a study on how an Italian immigrant to New York became an author and a key figure in transnational modernism. Most importantly, though, it's a study of contacts between American and Italian literatures in the modernist era, and an exploration of the challenges of writing in a second language. Carnevali's works are almost exclusively in English, even though he spent only eight years in the United States before returning to Italy. Combining literary analysis with some of the latest findings in applied linguistics and the study of bilingualism, this book contributes to a very active debate in the fields of comparative literature and translation studies: the implications of translingual writing. Andrea Ciribuco considers both the linguistic and cultural aspects of writing in a second language, examining its potential and pitfalls, and bringing Carnevali's works in touch with the sociocultural context of the great wave of Italian emigration.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781438475264
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Publication date: 08/01/2019
Series: SUNY series in Italian/American Culture
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 240
File size: 823 KB

About the Author

Andrea Ciribuco is postdoctoral research fellow in the discipline of Italian at the National University of Ireland, Galway.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction

1. Translating Childhood, Decoding America

2. The Newcomer and the Splendid Commonplace: Using English as a Second Language

3. Representing Italy in America

4. A Language for Bazzano: An Italian American Returns Home

5. Between the Atlantic and Oblivion: Carnevali in the 1930s

Conclusion: Emanuel Carnevali in the 21st Century

Notes
Bibliography
Index
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