Alfabet
Alfabet / Alphabet is the record of Sadiqa de Meijer's transition from speaking Dutch to English. Exploring questions of identity, landscape, family, and translation, the essays navigate the shifting cultural currents of language by using an eclectic approach to storytelling.
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- ISBN: 9781989287606
- Physical Description 153 pages ; 18 cm
- Publisher [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 2020.
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Alfabet/alphabet : A Memoir of a First Language
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Alfabet/alphabet : A Memoir of a First Language
alfabet / alphabetis the record of Sadiqa de Meijers transition from speaking Dutch to English. Exploring questions of identity, landscape, family, and translation, the essays navigate the shifting cultural currents of language by using an eclectic approach to storytelling. As such, fellow linguistic migrants to anglophone Canada will recognize elements of their experience inalfabet / alphabet, while lifelong English speakers will perceive their mother tongue in a new light.