Russo, Michele
A Plurilingual Analysis of Four Russian-American Autobiographies

Cournos, Nabokov, Berberova, Shteyngart.

Michele Russo explores the linguistic structure of the autobiographies of four Russian-American writers bringing into focus the linguistic 'geology' of their texts, as they record their passage from a Russian world to an English one. These linguistic passages are examined from both a synchronic and a diachronic perspective, by dwelling on the geographies of the émigrés' itineraries as well as on the process of linguistic transformation that such itineraries generated. 137 Seiten, broschiert (Passages - Transitions - Intersections; Vol. 7/V&R unipress 2020) leichte Lagerspuren/minor shelfwear