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  1. Lost and found in translation
    contemporary ethnic American writing and the politics of language diversity
    Author: Cutter, Martha J.
    Published: ©2005
    Publisher:  University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill

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    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden / Hochschulbibliothek Amberg
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 0807876828; 9780807876824
    RVK Categories: HU 1726
    Subjects: Littérature américaine / Auteurs issus des minorités / Histoire et critique; Langage et langues / Aspect politique; Minorités / États-Unis / Vie intellectuelle; Pluralisme dans la littérature; Relations interethniques dans la littérature; Groupes ethniques dans la littérature; Minorités dans la littérature; Ethnicité dans la littérature; LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General; Letterkunde; Amerikaans; Etnische minderheden; Talen; Politieke aspecten; Multikulturelle Gesellschaft; Übersetzung; Ethnische Identität <Motiv>; Minderheitenliteratur; Geistesleben; Literatur; Minderheit; Politik; Sprache; American literature; Language and languages; Minorities; Cultural pluralism in literature; Ethnic relations in literature; Ethnic groups in literature; Minorities in literature; Ethnicity in literature; Interkulturalität; Ethnische Gruppe; Literatur
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (viii, 326 pages)
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    Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002

    Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-303) and index

    An impossible necessity : translation and the re-creation of linguistic and cultural identities in the works of David Wong Louie, Fae Myenne Ng, and Maxine Hong Kingston -- Finding a "home" in translation : John Okada's No-no boy and Cynthia Kadohata's The floating world -- Translation as revelation : the task of the translator in the fiction of N. Scott Momaday, Leslie Marmon Silko, Susan Power, and Sherman Alexie -- Learnin--and not learnin--to speak the King's English : intralingual translation in the fiction of Toni Morrison, Danzy Senna, Sherley Anne Williams, and A.J. Verdelle -- The reader as translator : interlingual voice in the writing of Richard Rodriguez, Nash Candelaria, Cherríe Moraga, and Abelardo Delgado -- Cultural translation and multilingualism in and out of textual worlds

    Examines the trope of translation in twenty English-language novels and autobiographies by contemporary ethnic American writers. This book argues that these works advocate a politics of language diversity, a literary and social agenda that validates the multiplicity of ethnic cultures and tongues in the United States
  2. Henry James and the language of experience
    Author: Meissner, Collin
    Published: 1999
    Publisher:  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, U.K.

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    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden / Hochschulbibliothek Amberg
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    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 0511007132; 0511035497; 0511050739; 0511116950; 0511485190; 9780511007132; 9780511035494; 9780511050732; 9780511116957; 9780511485190; 9780521623988
    RVK Categories: HT 5855
    Subjects: Langage et langues / Aspect politique; Esthétique / Aspect politique; Conscience dans la littérature; Expérience dans la littérature; Politieke ideeën; Bewustzijn; Ervaring; Expérience / Dans la littérature; Aesthetics / Political aspects; Consciousness in literature; Experience in literature; Language and languages; Language and languages / Political aspects; Political and social views; Politik; Sprache; Ästhetik; Language and languages; Aesthetics; Consciousness in literature; Experience in literature; Erfahrung; Prosa; Bewusstsein; Politisches Denken; Sprache; Poetik
    Other subjects: James, Henry / 1843-1916 / Pensée politique et sociale; James, Henry / 1843-1916 / Langue; James, Henry / (1843-1916) / Critique et interprétation; James, Henry / 1843-1916 / Political and social views / Language; James, Henry / 1843-1916; James, Henry (1843-1916); James, Henry (1843-1916); James, Henry (1843-1916)
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (ix, 237 p.)
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    Includes bibliographical references (p. 228-232) and index

    The experience of Jamesian hermeneutics -- The experience of divestiture: toward an understanding of the self in The American -- Bondage and boundaries: Isabel Archer's failed experience -- Lambert Strether and the negativity of experience -- Recovery and revelation: the experience of self-exposure in James's autobiography

    "In Henry James and the Language of Experience, Collin Meissner examines the political dimension to the representation of experience as it unfolds throughout James's work. Meissner argues that, for James, experience was a private and public event, a dialectical process that registered and expressed his consciousness of the external world."--Jacket