This article proposes an investigation of multilingualism in two novels of Swedish migration-related literature: Kalla det vad fan du vill (2005) and Kan du säga Schibbolet? (2008) by Marjaneh Bakhtiari. Focusing on strategies of explicit (code-switching, loanwords) and implicit multilingualism, the two case studies are analyzed applying Meir Sternberg’s (1981) strategies for representing multilingualism in a literary text. By highlighting how Swedish betrays underlying foreign languages, particularly Farsi, the article contributes to the analysis of literary multilingualism within the ‘post-monolingual paradigm’ (Yildiz 2012).
Luca Gendolavigna (Sun,) studied this question.