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Lost and Found in Translation - Contemporary Ethnic American Writing and the Politics of Language Diversity (Paperback, New edition)
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Lost and Found in Translation - Contemporary Ethnic American Writing and the Politics of Language Diversity (Paperback, New edition)
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This book examines translation as trope in ethnic literature.
Starting with Salman Rushdie's assertion that even though something
is always lost in translation, something can always be gained,
Martha J. Cutter examines the trope of translation in twenty
English-language novels and autobiographies by contemporary ethnic
American writers. She argues that these works advocate a politics
of language diversity - a literary and social agenda that validates
the multiplicity of ethnic cultures and tongues in the United
States. Cutter studies works by Asian American, Native American,
African American, and Mexican American authors. She argues that
translation between cultures, languages, and dialects creates a new
language that, in its diversity, constitutes the true heritage of
the United States. Through the metaphor of translation, Cutter
demonstrates, writers such as Maxine Hong Kingston, Sherman Alexie,
Toni Morrison, and Richard Rodriguez establish a place within
American society for the many languages spoken by multiethnic and
multicultural individuals. Cutter concludes with an analysis of
contemporary debates over language policy, such as English-only
legislation, the recognition of Ebonics, and the growing acceptance
of bilingualism. The focus on translation by so many multiethnic
writers, she contends, offers hope in our postmodern culture for a
new condition in which creatively fused languages renovate the
communications of the dominant society and create new kinds of
identity for multicultural individuals.
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