03580nam 2200721 a 450 991077752520332120230617001538.0979-88-908800-2-40-8078-7682-8(CKB)1000000000462065(EBL)413251(OCoLC)476236518(SSID)ssj0000194334(PQKBManifestationID)11166560(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000194334(PQKBWorkID)10232584(PQKB)10592707(Au-PeEL)EBL413251(CaPaEBR)ebr10273458(CaONFJC)MIL930247(MiAaPQ)EBC413251(EXLCZ)99100000000046206520050610d2005 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrLost and found in translation[electronic resource] contemporary ethnic American writing and the politics of language diversity /Martha J. CutterChapel Hill University of North Carolina Pressc20051 online resource (337 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8078-5637-1 0-8078-2977-3 Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-303) and index.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.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.American literatureMinority authorsHistory and criticismLanguage and languagesPolitical aspectsUnited StatesMinoritiesUnited StatesIntellectual lifeCultural pluralism in literatureEthnic relations in literatureEthnic groups in literatureMinorities in literatureEthnicity in literatureUnited StatesLanguagesAmerican literatureMinority authorsHistory and criticism.Language and languagesPolitical aspectsMinoritiesIntellectual life.Cultural pluralism in literature.Ethnic relations in literature.Ethnic groups in literature.Minorities in literature.Ethnicity in literature.810.9/920693Cutter Martha J754434MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910777525203321Lost and found in translation3830559UNINA