Lost and found in translation
Subtitle: contemporary ethnic American writing and the politics of language diversity
By: Martha J. Cutter.
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 326
Subjects: American literature -- Minority authors -- History and criticism; Language and languages -- Political aspects -- United States; Minorities -- United States -- Intellectual life; Pluralism (Social sciences) in literature; Ethnic relations in literature; Ethnic groups in literature; Minorities in literature; Ethnicity in literature; United States -- Languages
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 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; title: Finding a "home" in translation : John Okada's No-no boy and Cynthia Kadohata's The floating world; title: Translation as revelation : the task of the translator in the fiction of N. Scott Momaday, Leslie Marmon Silko, Susan Power, and Sherman Alexie; title: 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; title: The reader as translator : interlingual voice in the writing of Richard Rodriguez, Nash Candelaria, Cherríe Moraga, and Abelardo Delgado; title: Cultural translation and multilingualism in and out of textual worlds.