Lost and found in translation [[electronic resource] ] : contemporary ethnic American writing and the politics of language diversity / / Martha J. Cutter

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910777525203321
• Autore: Cutter Martha J
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2005
• ISBN: 979-88-908800-2-4; 0-8078-7682-8
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (337 p.)
• Disciplina: 810.9/920693
• Soggetti: American literature - Minority authors - History and criticism; Language and languages - Political aspects - United States; Minorities - United States - Intellectual life; Cultural pluralism in literature; Ethnic relations in literature; Ethnic groups in literature; Minorities in literature; Ethnicity in literature; United States Languages
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-303) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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, Cherríe Moraga, and Abelardo Delgado -- Cultural translation and multilingualism in and out of textual worlds.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.