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Jung, Verena – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2004
This paper examines the process of self-translation undertaken by German exile writers who translated their own works, written in English, the language of their host country, back into their mother tongue, German. It postulates that the necessary precondition for self-translation is not just bilinguality but also biculturality and that it is this…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Translation, Familiarity, Foreign Countries