Othering the Other: English and Italian in Transaction

Jean–Jacques Lecercle

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Othering the Other: English and Italian in Transaction

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Pages:: 17–32

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789401209052_003

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This paper examines the process of othering between languages in Luigi Meneghello’s autobiographical work Il dispatrio. Besides offering a case study of an Italian author and scholar who others both the Italian and the English language in his writing, this study also uses a reading of Il dispatrio to question established philosophies of language in both linguistics and postcolonial criticism, arguing that each language is a philosophy in itself. This alternative conception of philosophy as a way of speaking and writing makes it possible to do away with narrow categories of cultural belonging, such as North–South or East–West, and to draw attention to the reciprocity of linguistic processes that shape every intercultural transaction, including those in Meneghello’s work.

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Locating Italy

East and West in British–Italian Transactions

Series: Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft Online, Volume: 161 and Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft, Volume: 161

E-Book ISBN:: 9789401209052

Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 01 Jan 2013

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- Literature and Cultural Studies
  - Literary Relations
  - English & Anglophone
- Social Sciences
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