Translated People, Translated Texts examines contemporary migration
narratives by four African writers who live in the diaspora and
write in English: Leila Aboulela and Jamal Mahjoub from the Sudan,
now living in Scotland and Spain respectively, and Abdulrazak
Gurnah and Moyez G. Vassanji from Tanzania, now residing in the UK
and Canada. Focusing on how language operates in relation to both
culture and identity, Steiner foregrounds the complexities of
migration as cultural translation. Cultural translation is a
concept which locates itself in postcolonial literary theory as
well as translation studies. The manipulation of English in such a
way as to signify translated experience is crucial in this regard.
The study focuses on a particular angle on cultural translation for
each writer under discussion: translation of Islam and the
strategic use of nostalgia in Leila Aboulela's texts; translation
and the production of scholarly knowledge in Jamal Mahjoub's
novels; translation and storytelling in Abdulrazak Gurnah's
fiction; and translation between the individual and old and new
communities in Vassanji's work. Translated People, Translated Texts
makes a significant contribution to our understanding of migration
as a common condition of the postcolonial world and offers a
welcome insight into particular travellers and their unique
translations.
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