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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