The Figure of the migrant and multilingual practices in selected Lithuanian novels and their English translations: Antanas Škėma's Balta drobulė and Gabija Grušaitė's Stasys Šaltoka

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The Figure of the migrant and multilingual practices in selected Lithuanian novels and their English translations: Antanas Škėma's Balta drobulė and Gabija Grušaitė's Stasys Šaltoka
Alternative Title:
Migrandi kuju ja mitmekeelsuspraktikad valitud leedu romaanides ning nende tõlgetes inglise keelde: Antanas Škėma "Balta drobulė" ja Gabija Grušaitė "Stasys Šaltoka"
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Methis. Studia humaniora Estonica, 2023, 25, 31-32, p. 39-76
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Vertimas / Translation; Proza / Prose.
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ENThis article discusses manifestations of multilingualism in two Lithuanian novels, Balta drobulė (White Shroud) (1958) by Antanas Škėma and a more recent Stasys Šaltoka: Vieneri metai (Stasys Šaltoka: A Year) (2017) by Gabija Grušaitė, and their translations into English, both published in 2018, White Shroud by Karla Gruodis and Cold East by Kipras Šumskas. The texts are analysed addressing both their cultural and socio-historical contexts and their aesthetic form and expression, in which multilingualism plays an important role. Drawing on theoretical propositions about multilingualism by Werner Helmich (2016), Till Dembeck (2017) and others, as well as about multilingualism in translation by Rainier Grutman (1998; 2006) and Reine Meylaerts (2006; 2013), this paper discusses the various manifestations of multilingualism in the selected literary texts and the ways they are conveyed in the English translations, focusing on the functions multilingual patterns perform in the original novels and how these patterns are adjusted in their translations. Keywords: migration, multilingualism, code-switching, experienced multilingualism, aesthetic multilingualism, translation.

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10.7592/methis.v25i31-32.23313
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1736-6852
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2025-08-04 11:35:45
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