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Translated people, translated texts [electronic resource] : language and migration in contemporary African literature / Tina Steiner.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: London : Routledge, 2014.Description: 176 pISBN:
  • 9781315760223 (e-book : PDF)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: No titleOnline resources: Also available in print edition.
Contents:
1. Mapping the terrain : defining cultural translation -- 2. Strategic nostalgia, Islam and cultural translation in Leila Aboulela's The translator (1999) and Coloured lights (2001) -- 3. Translation, knowledge and the reader in Jamal Mahjoub's Wings of dust (1994) and The carrier (1998) -- 4. Mimicry or translation : storytelling and migrant identity in Abdulrazak Gurnah's Admiring silence (1996) and By the sea (2001) -- 5. Ambivalent translation between individual and community Moyez Vassanji's No new land (1991) and Amriika (1999).
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First published 2009 by St. Jerome Publishing.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [161]-166) and index.

1. Mapping the terrain : defining cultural translation -- 2. Strategic nostalgia, Islam and cultural translation in Leila Aboulela's The translator (1999) and Coloured lights (2001) -- 3. Translation, knowledge and the reader in Jamal Mahjoub's Wings of dust (1994) and The carrier (1998) -- 4. Mimicry or translation : storytelling and migrant identity in Abdulrazak Gurnah's Admiring silence (1996) and By the sea (2001) -- 5. Ambivalent translation between individual and community Moyez Vassanji's No new land (1991) and Amriika (1999).

Also available in print edition.

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