Lost and found in translation : contemporary ethnic American writing and the politics of language diversity /
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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
©2005.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.