Lost and found in translation [electronic resource] : contemporary ethnic American writing and the politics of language diversity / Martha J. Cutter.
Publication details: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2005.Description: viii, 326 pSubject(s):- American literature -- Minority authors -- History and criticism
- Language and languages -- Political aspects -- United States
- Minorities -- United States -- Intellectual life
- Cultural pluralism in literature
- Ethnic relations in literature
- Ethnic groups in literature
- Minorities in literature
- Ethnicity in literature
- United States -- Languages
- 810.9/920693 22
- PS153.M56 C88 2005eb
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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