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Language issues in Amy Waldman’s novel "The Submission"

Type of publication
Konferencijų tezės nerecenzuojamame leidinyje / Conference theses in non-peer-reviewed publication (T2)
Author(s)
AuthorAffiliation
Daukšaitė-Kolpakovienė, Aurelija
Anglų kalbos skyrius / English Department
LT
Title
Language issues in Amy Waldman’s novel "The Submission"
[en]
Is part of
Sustainable multilingualism 2017 : 4th international scientific conference of Institute of Foreign Languages, Vytautas Magnus University; 11th international scientific conference of language Teachers’ Association of Lithuania, May 26–27, 2017 Kaunas, Lithuania: conference abstracts / editors Nemira Mačianskienė, Servet Çelik. Kaunas : Vytautas Magnus University, 2018
Date Issued
Date
2018
Publisher
Kaunas : Vytautas Magnus University, 2018
Extent
p. 98-98
URI
URI
https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12259/59769
Field of Science
Keywords (lt)
Abstract (en)

Amy Waldman’s novel The Submission (2011) reflects on the impact of 9/11 on American society, especially its immigrant community. One of its plot lines focuses on the community of Bangladeshis that is affected by 9/11 and its aftermath. It is represented through the character of Asma who has lost her husband, since he was working in one of the towers of the World Trade Centre on 9/11. Although many family members of American 9/11 victims have become public figures and their opinions are taken into account while discussing the future of the selected 9/11 memorial design, Asma is invisible in this process, since she does not speak any other language than her native one. The paper aims to analyse particular examples of problems that Asma’s inability to speak English causes in the novel.

Type of document
type::text::conference output::conference proceedings::conference paper
Language
Anglų / English (en)
Coverage Spatial
Lietuva / Lithuania (LT)
ISBN (of the container)
9786094673481
Other Identifier(s)
VDU02-000022947