Life without a mother tongue

d'Ews Thomson, Eva

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Life without a mother tongue

Date

2014

Authors

d'Ews Thomson, Eva

Abstract

This thesis comprises three autobiographical memoirs and an exegesis focussing on the themes of identity as shaped by migration, serial language acquisition and cultural change. The changes examined took place in the aftermath of the Second World War.