Transculturación, translingüismo y la novela "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao" de Junot Díaz

Autor

  • Ingrid Petkova Universidad Pedagogica de Cracovia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.12797/Politeja.16.2019.60.09

Słowa kluczowe:

transculturation, translanguaging, barrier, bilinguism, fusion of cultures

Abstrakt

Transculturation, Translanguaging and Junot Díaz’s Novel, "The Brief Wondrous Life" of Oscar Wao

The aim of this article is to talk about two concepts: transculturation and translanguaging and how these theories are expressed in Junot Díaz’s novel “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao”. The first term was coined by the Cuban anthropologist, Fernando Ortiz, and it refers to the encounter between cultures in which they are changed by adapting elements from the each other. Translanguaging is a process in which bilingual speakers use their languages as an integrated communication system. This term was described in detail by, among others, Ofelia García and Li Wei. After introducing these concepts, the article will focus on how these theories contribute to the creation of a text, in this case the novel by Díaz, that crosses linguistic and cultural barriers.

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Biogram autora

  • Ingrid Petkova - Universidad Pedagogica de Cracovia

    worked as an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Humanities of Pedagogical University in Krakow between 2015 and 2019 where she gave classes related to Spanish language and Linguistics. Currently she is doing a postdoctoral research at the University of Veracruz, Mexico. Her fields of research include linguistic interference, teaching Spanish as a second language, dialects of Spanish language.

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30-07-2019

Numer

Tom 16 Nr 3(60) (2019): Philologies and the Construction of an Open Society: Possibilities, Goals, Challenges

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OPENESS IN LINGUISTICS & LANGUAGE TEACHING

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„Transculturación, translingüismo y la novela «The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao» de Junot Díaz”. 2019. Politeja 16 (3(60): 139-54. https://doi.org/10.12797/Politeja.16.2019.60.09.