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The immigrant experience in American literature
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ISBN: 0946488002 Year: 1982 Volume: 10 Publisher: [S.l.] British Association for American Studies


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Translated people, translated texts : language and migration in contemporary African literature
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ISBN: 9781905763184 1905763182 9781315760223 9781317641513 9781317641520 9781138177963 Year: 2009 Publisher: Manchester St. Jerome Publishing

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Inhoudsopgave : -- Cultural translation in contemporary African migrant literature. Mapping the terrain -- Defining cultural translation -- The manipulation of language -- Contact zones, homes and destinations -- Historical, religious and personal contexts of departure -- Strategic nostalgia, Islam and cultural translation in Leila Aboulela's The translator (1999) and Coloured lights (2001). Strategic nostalgia -- Orientalism, Islamism and supplementary spaces -- Politics of language and nostalgic memories -- Translating back -- Translation, knowledge and the reader in Jamal Mahjoub's Wings of dust (1994) and The carrier (1998). Translation's threat to authority : "all knowledge in these dark times is dangerous" -- Exile and madness : a portrait of two translators : Sharif and Shibshib -- Copernicus, carriers and the translation of scientific knowledge -- Mimicry or translation : storytelling and migrant identity in Abdulrazak Gurnah's Admiring silence (1996) and By the sea (2001). Migrant storytelling and cultural translation -- Mimicry or the refusal to translate in admiring silence : "beware of the stories you read or tell" -- Cultural translation in By the sea : "stories can transform enemies into friends" -- Translation between the individual and community in Moyez G. Vassanji's No new land (1991) and Amriika (1999). Cultural translation and the threat of community -- Migration and difficult translations in No new land -- Migration, a translation into other galaxies? Amriika -- Conclusion.

Trailing clouds : immigrant fiction in contemporary America
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ISBN: 9780801444692 9780801472879 0801472873 0801444691 1501727052 Year: 2006 Publisher: Ithaca, N.Y. Cornell University Press

Ethnic passages : literary immigrants in twentieth-century America
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ISBN: 0226244423 0226244415 Year: 1993 Publisher: Chicago University of Chicago Press


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Immigrant narratives : orientalism and cultural translation in Arab American and Arab British literature
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ISBN: 9780199792061 0199792062 0199354979 9786613423061 0199919232 1283423065 0199792135 Year: 2011 Publisher: Oxford: Oxford university press,

Autour du roman beur : immigration et identité
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ISBN: 2738413102 9782738413109 Year: 1993 Volume: *2 Publisher: Paris L'Harmattan

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