Translated people, translated texts
Subtitle: language and migration in contemporary African literature
By: Tina Steiner.
Publisher: St. Jerome Pub.
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Kinderhook, NY
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781905763184
Subjects: African literature (English) -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Immigrants in literature; Identity (Psychology) in literature; Multiculturalism in literature; Culture conflict in literature; Language and culture
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Cultural translation in contemporary African migrant literature. Mapping the terrain; title: Defining cultural translation; title: The manipulation of language; title: Contact zones, homes and destinations; title: Historical, religious and personal contexts of departure; title: Strategic nostalgia, Islam and cultural translation in Leila Aboulela's The translator (1999) and Coloured lights (2001). Strategic nostalgia; title: Orientalism, Islamism and supplementary spaces; title: Politics of language and nostalgic memories; title: Translating back; title: Translation, knowledge and the reader in Jamal Mahjoub's Wings of dust (1994) and The carrier (1998). Translation's threat to authority : "all knowledge in these dark times is dangerous"; title: Exile and madness : a portrait of two translators : Sharif and Shibshib; title: Copernicus, carriers and the translation of scientific knowledge; title: Mimicry or translation : storytelling and migrant identity in Abdulrazak Gurnah's Admiring silence (1996) and By the sea (2001). Migrant storytelling and cultural translation; title: Mimicry or the refusal to translate in admiring silence : "beware of the stories you read or tell"; title: Cultural translation in By the sea : "stories can transform enemies into friends"; title: Translation between the individual and community in Moyez G. Vassanji's No new land (1991) and Amriika (1999). Cultural translation and the threat of community; title: Migration and difficult translations in No new land; title: Migration, a translation into other galaxies? Amriika; title: Conclusion.