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    "pk": 2032,
    "title": "Involuntary Dissent: The Minority Voice of Translingual Life Writers",
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    "abstract": "With reference to Eva Hoffman's Lost in Translation (1989) and four other texts I examine how translingual writers represent experiences of bringing what Hoffman calls 'terms from elsewhere' into dominant cultural dialogues. Alongside Hoffman's memoir I consider Bulgarian-French philosopher Tzvetan Todorov's Bilinguisme, dialogisme et schizophrenie (1985), Indian-born US writer Ginu Kamani's Code Switching (2000), Russian-born Australian journalist Irene Ulman's Playgrounds and Battlegrounds (2007) and French-Australian novelist Catherine Rey's To Make a Prairie it Takes a Clover and One Bee (2013). For all the diversity of translingual trajectories these 5 texts represent, there are conspicuous parallels between their accounts of speaking in a 'minority voice'. My focus is on experiences of involuntary dissent, a form of ambivalent group membership, which constitutes a significant and critically overlooked aspect of translingual identity.",
    "language": "en",
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    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "minority voice"
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        {
            "word": "involuntary dissent"
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        {
            "word": "translingual life writing"
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    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2f20w0jq",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Mary",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Besemeres",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "The Australian National University",
            "department": "None"
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": "2014-10-16T03:21:58Z",
    "date_accepted": "2014-10-16T03:21:58Z",
    "date_published": "2015-02-16T01:36:42Z",
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