19 - Identity (or Are the Literary Voices of Exophonic Writers Compromised by Cultural Expectations?)

About this episode

This episode explores the relationship between identity and exophonic writing, discussing how cultural expectations influence literary voices.

Send a text Welcome, exophonic friends! It's almost impossible to talk about exophony without talking about Identity, since it's such a fundamental pillar for this practice. Matters of Identity emerge during the phase of choosing to become an exophonic writer as well as during the phase after one has already been writing in a second language for a while (well, duh, matters of identity govern almost everything we do, don't they?) In this episode, I'm posing a lot of quest...

People in this episode

Host: Zoe Gomez Cass

Topics covered

• identity
• exophony
• cultural expectations
• literary voices
• writing in a second language

Keywords

• exophonic writers
• identity
• cultural expectations
• literary voices
• second language writing

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