New PDF release: Borrowed Tongues: Life Writing, Migration, and Translation

By Eva C. Karpinski

ISBN-10: 1554583578

ISBN-13: 9781554583577

Borrowed Tongues is the 1st constant try and observe the theoretical framework of translation experiences within the research of self-representation in lifestyles writing through ladies in transnational, diasporic, and immigrant groups. It makes a speciality of linguistic and philosophical dimensions of translation, displaying how the dominant language serves to articulate and toughen social, cultural, political, and gender hierarchies.

Drawing on feminist, poststructuralist, and postcolonial scholarship, this research examines Canadian and American examples of conventional autobiography, autoethnography, and experimental narrative. As a prolific and contradictory website of linguistic functionality and cultural construction, such texts problem dominant assumptions approximately identification, distinction, and company.

utilizing the writing of authors similar to Marlene NourbeSe Philip, Jamaica Kincaid, Laura Goodman Salverson, and Akemi Kikumura, and concentrating on discourses by which topic positions and identities are produced, the research argues that diversified techniques of language and translation correspond with specific buildings of subjectivity and attitudes to otherness. A nuanced research of intersectional alterations unearths gender, race, ethnicity, nationality, tradition, and diaspora as volatile different types of illustration.

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