Borrowed Tongues

Life Writing, Migration, & Translation

by: Eva C. Karpinski

Borrowed Tongues
Author: Eva C. Karpinski

Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press

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Format: Paperback / softback

Publication date: 01 May 2012

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ISBN: 1554583578 ISBN 13: 9781554583577

Borrowed Tongues by Eva C. Karpinski

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. Top page

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This is the first consistent attempt to apply the theoretical framework of translation studies in the analysis of self-representation in life writing by women in transnational, diasporic, and immigrant communities. It focuses on linguistic and philosophical dimensions of translation, showing how the dominant language serves to articulate and reinforce social, cultural, political, and gender hierarchies. Drawing on feminist, post-structuralist, and postcolonial scholarship, this study examines Canadian and American examples of traditional autobiography, autoethnography, and experimental narrative. As a prolific and contradictory site of linguistic performance and cultural production, such texts challenge dominant assumptions about identity, difference, and agency. Using the writing of authors such as Marlene NourbeSe Philip, Jamaica Kincaid, Laura Goodman Salverson, and Akemi Kikumura, and focusing on discourses through which subject positions and identities are produced, the study argues that different concepts of language and translation correspond with particular constructions of subjectivity and attitudes to otherness. It offers a nuanced analysis of intersectional differences reveals gender, race, ethnicity, nationality, culture, and diaspora as unstable categories of representation. Top page

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Publisher & Imprint: Wilfrid Laurier University Press

City: Waterloo, Ontario

Pages: 260

More info: height 155 mm width 230 mm weight 408 gr thickness 20 mm

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Age recommended: Professional and scholarly

Subject Indexing & Classification Dewey:(DC23) 305.48800971

Departments: Translation & interpretation;

Record updated at: 03 April, 2013 time: 19:13


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