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Lost and found in translation : contemporary ethnic American writing and the politics of language diversity / Martha J. Cutter.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cutter, Martha J.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American literature--Minority authors--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- Language and languages--Political aspects--United States.
- Language and languages.
- Minorities--United States--Intellectual life.
- Minorities.
- Cultural pluralism in literature.
- Ethnic relations in literature.
- Ethnic groups in literature.
- Minorities in literature.
- Ethnicity in literature.
- United States--Languages.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (337 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Examines the trope of translation in twenty English-language novels and autobiographies by contemporary ethnic American writers. This book argues that these works advocate a politics of language diversity, a literary and social agenda that validates the multiplicity of ethnic cultures and tongues in the United States.
- Contents:
- An impossible necessity : translation and the re-creation of linguistic and cultural identities in the works of David Wong Louie, Fae Myenne Ng, and Maxine Hong Kingston
- Finding a "home" in translation : John Okada's No-no boy and Cynthia Kadohata's The floating world
- Translation as revelation : the task of the translator in the fiction of N. Scott Momaday, Leslie Marmon Silko, Susan Power, and Sherman Alexie
- Learnin
- and not learnin
- to speak the King's English : intralingual translation in the fiction of Toni Morrison, Danzy Senna, Sherley Anne Williams, and A.J. Verdelle
- The reader as translator : interlingual voice in the writing of Richard Rodriguez, Nash Candelaria, Cherrie Moraga, and Abelardo Delgado
- Cultural translation and multilingualism in and out of textual worlds.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-303) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9798890880024
- 9780807876824
- 0807876828
- OCLC:
- 476236518
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