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Subject(s)

• African literature (English)—20th century—History and criticism [Browse]
• Immigrants in literature [Browse]
• Identity (Psychology) in literature [Browse]
• Multiculturalism in literature [Browse]
• Culture conflict in literature [Browse]
• Language and culture [Browse]

Notes

Originally published 2009 by St. Jerome Publishing.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-166) and index.

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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OCLC

1340475388

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