Lost and found in translation [electronic resource] : contemporary ethnic American writing and the politics of language diversity /

Cutter, Martha J.

Lost and found in translation contemporary ethnic American writing and the politics of language diversity / [electronic resource] : Martha J. Cutter. - Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2005. - viii, 326 p.

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

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�ie Moraga, and Abelardo Delgado -- Cultural translation and multilingualism in and out of textual worlds.


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American literature--Minority authors--History and criticism.
Language and languages--Political aspects--United States.
Minorities--Intellectual life.--United States
Cultural pluralism in literature.
Ethnic relations in literature.
Ethnic groups in literature.
Minorities in literature.
Ethnicity in literature.


United States--Languages.


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