{"product_id":"senegal-abroad-linguistic-borders-racial-formations-and-diasporic-imaginaries-paperback","title":"Senegal Abroad: Linguistic Borders, Racial Formations, and Diasporic Imaginaries - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMaya Angela Smith\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSenegal Abroad\u003c\/i\u003e explores the fascinating role of language in national, transnational, postcolonial, racial, and migrant identities. Capturing the experiences of Senegalese in Paris, Rome, and New York, it depicts how they make sense of who they are-and how they fit into their communities, countries, and the larger global Senegalese diaspora. Drawing on extensive interviews with a wide range of emigrants as well as people of Senegalese heritage, Maya Angela Smith contends that they shape their identity as they purposefully switch between languages and structure their discourse. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The Senegalese are notable, Smith suggests, both in their capacity for movement and in their multifaceted approach to language. She finds that, although the emigrants she interviews express complicated relationships to the multiple languages they speak and the places they inhabit, they also convey pleasure in both travel and language. Offering a mix of poignant, funny, reflexive, introspective, and witty stories, they blur the lines between the utility and pleasure of language, allowing a more nuanced understanding of why and how Senegalese move.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eMaya Angela Smith is an associate professor of French and Italian studies at the University of Washington.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 264\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 8.9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 12, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51790247854368,"sku":"9780299320546","price":39.51,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/bc014fd2091ec92ecf3214a3301cb9d9.webp?v=1780672762","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/senegal-abroad-linguistic-borders-racial-formations-and-diasporic-imaginaries-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}