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The absent female émigré: women's autobiographical writing from exile to exophony
Zagreb: University of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2024. urn:nbn:hr:131:895426
Fadiga, Matea
University of Zagreb
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Department of English language and literature

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Fadiga, M. (2024). The absent female émigré: women's autobiographical writing from exile to exophony (Master's thesis). Zagreb: University of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. Retrieved from https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:131:895426

Fadiga, Matea. "The absent female émigré: women's autobiographical writing from exile to exophony." Master's thesis, University of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2024. https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:131:895426

Fadiga, Matea. "The absent female émigré: women's autobiographical writing from exile to exophony." Master's thesis, University of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2024. https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:131:895426

Fadiga, M. (2024). 'The absent female émigré: women's autobiographical writing from exile to exophony', Master's thesis, University of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, accessed 29 July 2024, https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:131:895426

Fadiga M. The absent female émigré: women's autobiographical writing from exile to exophony [Master's thesis]. Zagreb: University of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences; 2024 [cited 2024 July 29] Available at: https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:131:895426

M. Fadiga, "The absent female émigré: women's autobiographical writing from exile to exophony", Master's thesis, University of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Zagreb, 2024. Available at: https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:131:895426

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TitleThe absent female émigré: women's autobiographical writing from exile to exophony
AuthorMatea Fadiga
MentorVanja Polić Jurković (mentor)
Committee memberTihana Klepač (član povjerenstva)
Committee memberAnda Bukvić Pažin (član povjerenstva)
GranterUniversity of Zagreb
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
(Department of English language and literature)
Zagreb
Defense date and country2024-01-24, Croatia
Scientific / art field,
discipline and subdiscipline		HUMANISTIC SCIENCES
Philology
Anglistics
Abstract
This paper explores the often-overlooked writing by female émigrés. It examines four autobiographies written about and within the condition of exile and in an acquired or non-native language, a phenomenon known as exophony. These three terms, exile, exophony and autobiography, represent the basis from which the narratives take shape and underpin all other thematical and formal components. The texts here analysed are Eva Hoffman’s Lost in Translation: A Life in a New Language (1990), Nancy Huston’s Losing North: Musings on Land, Tongue and Self (2002), Jhumpa Lahiri’s In Other Words (2017) and Anca Vlasopolos’ No Return Address: A Memoir of Displacement (2000). The chosen corpus testifies to the particularity of the female exilic experience and demonstrates it is a productive condition in which women have the possibility to re-negotiate their identities within a different socio-cultural matrix. The two key concerns that arise in the narratives are the processes of becoming writers and women anew, as they explore how to find a voice, literally and metaphorically, in a new language.
Keywords
Languageenglish
URN:NBNurn:nbn:hr:131:895426
Study programmeTitle: English Language and Literature (double major); specializations in: Linguistics, Literature and Culture, Translation, TEFL
Course: Literature and Culture
Study programme type: university
Study level: graduate
Academic / professional title: magistar/magistra engleskog jezika i književnosti (magistar/magistra engleskog jezika i književnosti)
Type of resourceText
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