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



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Autore: Cutter Martha J Visualizza persona
Titolo: Lost and found in translation : contemporary ethnic American writing and the politics of language diversity / / Martha J. Cutter Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2005
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (337 p.)
Disciplina: 810.9/920693
Soggetto topico: 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
Soggetto geografico: United States Languages
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, Cherrie 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.
Titolo autorizzato: Lost and found in translation  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 979-88-908800-2-4
0-8078-7682-8
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910827730203321
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