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FIRST LANGUAGE ROOTS: INTRA-SENTENTIAL LITERARY CODE-SWITCHING IN ESL POETRY AND PROSE ——o— LISA SCHANTL This chapter examines how multilingualism and migration come together in contemporary creative nonfiction and poetry by authors who compose their literary texts in English as their second language (ESL). One-word interferences, or instances of intra-sentential code-switching, in the author’s first language(s) are a potent multilingual strategy in translingual writing to evoke a representation of or allusion to individual migration experiences or global movements. To add to the framework of literary code-switching proposed by Deganutti and Domokos (2021), these instances are further examined for their co-occurrence with (‘weak’) or without (‘strong’) explications in the matrix language. Various functions, such as (de-)familiarization, mimesis, or typographical imagery, show how additional layers of meaning and reference can be evoked in creative nonfiction and poetry by ESL writers through a poeticization of the author’s migration background. TRANSLINGUAL WRITING AND MIGRATION This paper sets out to explore literary multilingualism, in particular the literary strategy of intra-sentential code-switching, in prose and poetry by English as a Second Language (ESL) writers with a migration background. ESL writers belong to the group of translingual writers, i.e. authors who compose their texts in a language that is neither their first language nor their mother tongue, or writers who write in more than one language.’ Although academic interest in translingual literature has increased over the past decades, precise analyses focusing on either a subcategory of translingual writing, e.g. ESL authors, or on specific strategies that these writers employ in their work are not yet close to being exhausted. Code-switching is one the most distinctive strategies that can be observed in literature by translingual writers. Till Dembeck and Rolf Parr even discuss Steven G. Kellman (ed.): Switching Languages: Translingual Writers Reflect on Their Craft, Lincoln, University of Nebraska Press, 2003, xi. +71»
