Where There Is Danger bookcover

Where There Is Danger

Luba Jurgenson 

(Author)

Meredith Sopher 

(Translator)
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Description

Writer, professor, translator and editor Luba Jurgenson lives between two languages-her native Russian and her adopted French. She recounts the coexistence of these two languages, as well as two bodies and two worlds, in an autobiographical text packed with fascinating anecdotes.

Product Details

PublisherAcademic Studies Press
Publish DateNovember 19, 2019
Pages104
LanguageEnglish
TypeBook iconPaperback / softback
EAN/UPC9781644690390
Dimensions9.2 X 6.1 X 0.2 inches | 0.3 pounds

About the Author

Luba Jurgenson is Professor of Russian Literature and specializes in representations of mass violence in East and Central Europe. She also serves as Director of the research centre Eur'ORBEM at the Sorbonne and as an editorial board member for the journal Memories at Stake.
Meredith Sopher studied French-English Translation and Interpretation at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey. She currently works as a freelance translator and interpreter in France.

Reviews

"In the first essay of her collection Where There Is Danger, Luba Jurgenson writes, 'Bilingualism is waiting for its chronicler, someone down-to-earth who follows each step of the bodily clues to the constantly shifting center.' As such a chronicler, she makes striking metaphors of history, language, the body, and the diaspora, hoping to understand the strange reality of being a citizen of two languages and their cultures. ... Jurgenson's voice sounds cohesive and aware, and she interrogates language to examine the origins of thought and purpose. French and Russian have history embedded within their words, should someone care to parse it. In such acts of dissection and revivification, Where There Is Danger is at its brightest." -Camille-Yvette Welsch, Foreword Reviews

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