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Memory Speaks

On Losing and Reclaiming Language and Self

Julie Sedivy

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$18.95 • £16.95 • €17.95

ISBN 9780674293939

Publication Date: 08/22/2023

368 pages

5-1/2 x 8-1/4 inches

6 photos

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Related Subjects

1. Death
2. Dreams
3. Duality
4. Conflict
5. Revival
6. Home
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index

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Listen to (or read) a Radio Prague International interview with Julie Sedivy [in English]
On the BBC Sounds program Word of Mouth, listen to Sedivy discuss how young children assimilate after immigration, how parents adapt, and what can learned from her family experiences for the whole of society
On the Linguistic Society of America podcast Subtitle, listen to Sedivy describe how she became estranged from her native Czech, only to rediscover it after the death of her father [transcript and supplemental photos]
On ABC Radio National’s All in the Mind, listen to Sedivy discuss what goes on in the multilingual mind
On the CBC’s Daybreak Alberta, listen to Sedivy describe the psychosocial benefits of multilingualism and the loss of identity that can accompany a loss of facility in a previously spoken or understood language
At Literary Hub, read an excerpt from Memory Speaks on Sedivy’s own experience as a Czech-speaking child migrant to English-speaking Canada

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