Borrowed tongues : life writing, migration, and translation / Eva C. Karpinski.
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TextSeries: Life writing seriesPublication details: Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2012.Description: 1 online resource (vii, 271 pages)Content type: - text
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- online resource
- 9781554583997
- 1554583993
- 9786613863102
- 6613863106
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- 9781283550659
- American prose literature -- Minority authors -- History and criticism
- Women immigrants -- Canada -- Biography -- History and criticism
- Women immigrants -- United States -- Biography -- History and criticism
- Autobiography -- Women authors -- History and criticism
- Translating and interpreting -- Philosophy
- Canadian prose literature (English) -- Minority authors -- History and criticism
- Prose canadienne-anglaise -- Auteurs issus de minorités -- Histoire et critique
- Prose américaine -- Auteurs issus des minorités -- Histoire et critique
- Immigrantes -- Canada -- Biographies -- Histoire et critique
- Immigrantes -- États-Unis -- Biographies -- Histoire et critique
- Écrits de femmes autobiographiques -- Histoire et critique
- Traduction -- Philosophie
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General
- American prose literature -- Minority authors
- Autobiography -- Women authors
- Translating and interpreting -- Philosophy
- Canada
- United States
- C818/.50809920691 23
- PR9192.5 .Z717
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Print version record.
Introduction Migrations of Theories: Autobiography and Translation -- Literacy Narratives: Mary Antin and Laura Goodman Salverson -- Immigrant Crypto(auto)graphy: Akemi Kikumura and Apolonja Maria Kojder -- Experimental Self-Translations: Eva Hoffman and Smaro Kamboureli -- Translation as Allegorical Metafiction: Marlene Nourbese Philip and Jamaica Kincaid -- Conclusion.
Focuses on linguistic and philosophical dimensions of translation, showing how the dominant language serves to articulate and reinforce social, cultural, political, and gender hierarchies. This title examines Canadian and American examples of traditional autobiography, autoethnography, and experimental narrative.
English.
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