Language and Identity

This month, NYU Shanghai welcomes guests who will explore issues in Language & Identity, including a film screening of Talking Black in America on February 22nd, and a panel discussion on February 27th that investigates the relationship between language and our collective and personal identities.

Are you intrigued by these topics or looking for more reading, including fiction and memoir? Check out these books from NYU:

Americanah
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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Native Speaker
Chang-Rae Lee

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Typical American
Gish Jen

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Lost in Translation: A Life in a New Language
Eva Hoffmann

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French Lessons: A Memoir
Alice Yaeger Kaplan

Available as an ebook

Hunger of Memory
Richard Rodriguez

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How the García girls lost their accents
Julia Alvarez

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When I was Puerto Rican
Esmeralda Santiago

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Chinese Englishes: A Sociolinguistic History
Kingsley Bolton

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Dialects at School: Educating Linguistically Diverse Students
Jeffrey Reaser, Carolyn Temple Adger, Walt Wolfram, Donna Christian

Available as an ebook

China and English Globalisation and the Dilemmas of Identity
Joseph Lo Bianco, Jane Orton, Gao Yihong

Available as an ebook

Don’t forget about our scholarly journals! Keep up with recent research trends in journals like these: