Life in a box: gender, migration and language in the bilingual archive of Truus van Bruinessen, a Dutch-Canadian housewife of the 1950s
Unpublished and undistributed, Truus van Bruinessen’s collection of life-writings in Dutch (journal, letters, and travel writing) and English (memoir) only exists in a box in Canada’s National Archives. It documents its author’s migration to Canada and her domestic travails as a housewife of the 1950s, which include her lack of access to English. The archive provides a unique opportunity for the study of gender and language shift in adult migrants’ life-writing. Comparative analysis of van Bruinessen’s skilful and highly gendered use of the epistolary form in Dutch on one hand, and of her memo... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Text |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2016 |
Schlagwörter: | van Bruinessen / Dutch-Canadian migration / Life-writing genres / Immigrant women’s writing / (Self-)translation / Bilingual archive |
Sprache: | unknown |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-28626924 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | https://figshare.com/articles/journal_contribution/Life_in_a_box_gender_migration_and_language_in_the_bilingual_archive_of_Truus_van_Bruinessen_a_Dutch-Canadian_housewife_of_the_1950s/23432165 |