Episode Four: Border Tongues | 'Searching for Language'

Episode Four: Border Tongues | 'Searching for Language'

Language forms the core of who we are, encapsulating our identity and how we perform it in our socio-cultural spaces. Language, then spoken in a space formerly designed and imagined for a homogenous society in the diasporas, becomes a place of struggle for immigrants — a mirror of exile and the experiences that encapsulate it.

In this episode, we speak with Jonë Zhitia about her essay 'Nadryw | Sprache fühlen' ("Feeling Language"). In her writing, Jonë explores language as an antagonism that places her war-refugee and migrant experiences in an ongoing dialogue between homes in transit.

Thank you, Fjolla Bunjaku, for reading parts of Jonë's essay for this episode. Translation from German: Leanne Cvetan.