Borrowed tongues : life writing, migration, and translation / Eva C. Karpinski.

• Migrations of theories : autobiography and translation -- Literacy narratives : Mary Antin and Laura Goodman Salverson -- Immigrant crypto(auto)graphy : Akemi Kikumura and Apolonja Maria Kojder -- Experimental self-translations : Eva Hoffman and Smaro Kamboureli -- Translation as allegorical metafiction : Marlene Nourbese Philip and Jamaica Kincaid.

• "Borrowed Tongues 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, poststructuralist, 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. A nuanced analysis of intersectional differences reveals gender, race, ethnicity, nationality, culture, and diaspora as unstable categories of representation."--Publisher's website. 

Ämnesord

Minoritetsförfattare  (sao)

Kvinnliga författare  (sao)

Identitet (psykologi)  (sao)

Identity (Psychology)  (LCSH)

Translating and interpreting  -- Social aspects. (LCSH)

Bilingualism  -- Psychological aspects. (LCSH)

Autobiography  -- Women authors -- History and criticism. (LCSH)

Women immigrants  -- Canada -- Biography -- History and criticism. (LCSH)

Women immigrants  -- United States -- Biography -- History and criticism. (LCSH)

Canadian prose literature (English)  -- Minority authors -- History and criticism. (LCSH)

Översättning och tolkning  -- sociala aspekter (sao)

Tvåspråkighet  -- psykologiska aspekter (sao)

Självbiografier  -- historia (sao)

Invandrarkvinnor  -- Kanada -- historia (sao)

Invandrarkvinnor  -- Förenta staterna -- historia (sao)

Kanadensisk prosa  -- historia (sao)

Identity (Psychology)  (LCSH)

Women authors  (LCSH)

Genre

Biografier  (saogf)

Klassifikation

P306.97.S63 (LCC)

PR9192.5 (LCC)

PS8185 A88 (LAC)

818/.50809920691 (DDC)