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28 - Unbecoming a Monolingual Anglophone

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 June 2022

By
Gail Prasad
Edited by
Gail Prasad ,
Nathalie Auger  and
Emmanuelle Le Pichon Vorstman
Gail Prasad
Affiliation:
York University, Toronto
Nathalie Auger
Affiliation:
University of Montpellier
Emmanuelle Le Pichon Vorstman
Affiliation:
University of Toronto
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Summary

Elatiana Razafimandimbimanana explains how, during her childhood, from Canada, Madagascar and Kenya to France, she experienced multilingualism, which in turn led her to co-construct pluri-artistic practices with students from New Caledonia. Deeply affected by being "impure" in her own linguistic practices, she defines an ideology of purity spread around the world and how she turns to art to empower her plurilingual students.

Keywords

pluri-artistic practices belongingminority discoursemononormative approacheshistoricized monolingual ideologynative speaker plurilingual identitiesColonial traumalinguistic insecuritycollaboration of culturescollective emancipation
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Multilingualism and Education
Researchers' Pathways and Perspectives
 , pp. 232 - 239
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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