21.2933, Books: Translation: Steiner

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Subject: Translated People, Translated Texts: Steiner
 

	
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Title: Translated People, Translated Texts 
Subtitle: Language and Migration in Contemporary African Literature 
Publication Year: 2009 
Publisher: St. Jerome Publishing Ltd
	   http://www.stjerome.co.uk
	

Book URL: http://http://www.stjerome.co.uk/page.php?id=535&doctype=StJBooks&section=3&msg=&finds=0&string= 


Author: Tina Steiner

Paperback: ISBN:  9781905763184 Pages: 180 Price: U.K. £ 22.50 Comment: incl. pp


Abstract:

Translated People, Translated Texts examines contemporary migration 
narratives by four African writers who live in the diaspora and write in English: 
Leila Aboulela and Jamal Mahjoub from the Sudan, now living in Scotland and 
Spain respectively, and Abdulrazak Gurnah and Moyez G. Vassanji from 
Tanzania, now residing in the UK and Canada. 

Focusing on how language operates in relation to both culture and identity, 
Steiner foregrounds the complexities of migration as cultural translation. 
Cultural translation is a concept which locates itself in postcolonial literary 
theory as well as translation studies. The manipulation of English in such a 
way as to signify translated experience is crucial in this regard. The study 
focuses on a particular angle on cultural translation for each writer under 
discussion: translation of Islam and the strategic use of nostalgia in Leila 
Aboulela's texts; translation and the production of scholarly knowledge in 
Jamal Mahjoub's novels; translation and storytelling in Abdulrazak Gurnah's 
fiction; and translation between the individual and old and new communities in 
Vassanji's work. 

Translated People, Translated Texts makes a significant contribution to our 
understanding of migration as a common condition of the postcolonial world 
and offers a welcome insight into particular travellers and their unique 
translations. 



Linguistic Field(s): Translation

Subject Language(s): English (eng)


Written In: English  (eng)
	
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