General Editor's Preface

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" General Editor's Preface "
Kramsch, Claire

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	925989
Doc. No	:	LA6s24q4wn
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Kramsch, Claire
Title & Author	:	General Editor's Preface [Article]\ Kramsch, Claire
Title of Periodical	:	L2 Journal
Volume/ Issue Number	:	7/1
Date	:	2015
Abstract	:	It is my great pleasure to introduce the two guest editors of this fourth Special Issue of L2 Journal Steven G. Kellman and Natasha Lvovich. I had known Steven’s work through his two path-breaking books on writers who write in multiple languages or in a language that is not their own: The Translingual Imagination (2000) and Switching Languages: Translingual Writers Reflect on Their Craft (2003). I knew Natasha’s beautiful autobiographical memoir The Multilingual Self (1997) in which she takes the reader through her experiences learning French, Italian, and English, and her experiences with synesthesia, i.e., seeing the sounds of her various languages in colored images of the mind. After the publication of my Multilingual Subject (2009), Natasha approached me with a paper on synesthesia that we then published in L2 Journal volume 4 issue 2 (2012). When in Fall 2013, she and Steven then offered to coordinate a special issue of the journal on Literary Translingualism: Multilingual Identity and Creativity, we were honored and delighted.