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
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| Titolo: |
Lost and found in translation : contemporary ethnic American writing and the politics of language diversity / / Martha J. Cutter
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| 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 |
| ISBN: | 979-88-908800-2-4 |
| 0-8078-7682-8 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910827730203321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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