{"product_id":"where-there-is-danger-9781644690390","title":"Where There Is Danger","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e2015 winner of the Prix Valery Larbaud. Writer, professor, translator, and editor Luba Jurgenson lives between two languages—her native Russian and her adopted French. She recounts the coexistence of these two languages, as well as two bodies and two worlds, in an autobiographical text packed with fascinating anecdotes. Living bilingually can be uncomfortable, but this strange in-between state can equally serve as a refuge and inspire creativity. Jurgenson sheds light on this little-explored territory with lively prose and a keen awareness of her historical and literary context. Language, identity, translation, and the self: all are intertwined. The ceaseless journey of bilingualism is at last revealed.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“In the first essay of her collection \u003ci\u003eWhere There Is Danger\u003c\/i\u003e, Luba Jurgenson writes, ‘Bilingualism is waiting for its chronicler, someone down-to-earth who follows each step of the bodily clues to the constantly shifting center.’ As such a chronicler, she makes striking metaphors of history, language, the body, and the diaspora, hoping to understand the strange reality of being a citizen of two languages and their cultures. … Jurgenson’s voice sounds cohesive and aware, and she interrogates language to examine the origins of thought and purpose. French and Russian have history embedded within their words, should someone care to parse it. In such acts of dissection and revivification, \u003ci\u003eWhere There Is Danger\u003c\/i\u003e is at its brightest.” —Camille-Yvette Welsch, \u003ci\u003eForeword Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e * Foreword Reviews *","brand":"Academic Studies Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51359904170327,"sku":"9781644690390","price":15.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781644690390.jpg?v=1754126067","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/where-there-is-danger-9781644690390","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}