Polylingual coherence and fragmentation in “Kalla det vad fan du vill” and “Kan du säga Schibbolet?” by Marjaneh Bakhtiari

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).