27.2770, Books: Judith Ortiz Cofer and Aurora Levins Morales: The Construction of Identity through Cultural and Linguistic Hybridization: Betancourt
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Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2016 13:37:53
From: Ulrich Lueders [lincom.europa at t-online.de]
Subject: Judith Ortiz Cofer and Aurora Levins Morales: The Construction of Identity through Cultural and Linguistic Hybridization: Betancourt
Title: Judith Ortiz Cofer and Aurora Levins Morales: The Construction of
Identity through Cultural and Linguistic Hybridization
Series Title: LINCOM Studies in Language and Culture 03
Publication Year: 2016
Publisher: Lincom GmbH
http://www.lincom-shop.eu
Book URL: lincom-shop.eu/LSLC-03-Judith-Ortiz-Cofer-and-Aurora-Levins-Morales
Author: Juanita Rodríguez Betancourt
Paperback: ISBN: 9783862887125 Pages: 262 Price: Europe EURO 82.80
Abstract:
This investigation examines how the Third Space of enunciation as defined by
Homi Bhabha as an “in between space” that carries the load of cultural
meaning, becomes the site to negotiate and construct identity through cultural
and linguistic hybridization in Judith Ortiz Cofer’s Silent Dancing: A Partial
Remembrance of a Puerto Rican Childhood and segments written by Aurora Levins
Morales in Getting Home Alive. Ortiz Cofer and Levins Morales construct
Diasporican hybrid identities in a transnational context through their use of
language and cultural expressions. The Third Space of enunciation becomes the
site of cultural and linguistic exchanges, struggles, negotiations, and
ultimately acceptance of their hybrid selves.
In this space, readers witness an intra-cultural dialogue between the
competing cultures and within these exchanges and negotiations; language is
utilized as a means of expression and is intentionally or unintentionally
employed. Although Ortiz Cofer and Levins Morales write in accurate Standard
American English, their writings are infused with Spanish words and
expressions. The use of these words and expressions provides a link to their
memories of their Puerto Rican cultural and linguistic capital. A close
examination of the use of these culturally charged Spanish words or phrases
reveals interesting details that include providing translations,
code-switching, linguistic calques, or omissions of their meanings altogether
as a technique to privilege the bilingual reader and perhaps penalize the
Anglo reader’s lack of knowledge of Puerto Rican linguistic and cultural
capital.
Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics
Sociolinguistics
Written In: English (eng)
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