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Lost and found in translation : contemporary ethnic American writing and the politics of language diversity Cover Image

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Lost and found in translation : contemporary ethnic American writing and the politics of language diversity

Cutter, Martha J. (Author).

Record details

ISBN: 0807829773 (hbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN: 0807856371 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Physical Description: print
viii, 326 p. ; 23 cm.
Publisher: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2005.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-303) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

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, Cherr©Ưe Moraga, and Abelardo Delgado -- Cultural translation and multilingualism in and out of textual worlds.