Research Catalog

Title

Translating one's self : language and selfhood in cross-cultural autobiography / Mary Besemeres.

Author

Besemeres, Mary

Publication

Oxford : New York : Peter Lang, c2002.

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Details

Description

297 p.; 23 cm.

Series Statement

European connections ; v. 3

Uniform Title

European connections v. 3.

Subject

• 1900-1999
• Autobiography
• Bilingual authors
• European literature > 20th century > History and criticism
• Comparative literature
• Identity (Psychology)
• Autobiography > Cross-cultural studies

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-291) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Chapter 1. Language and Self in Cross-cultural Autobiography: Eva Hoffman's Lost in Translation -- Chapter 2. Rewriting One's Self into English: Milosz Translated by Milosz -- Chapter 3. Self-translation in Vladimir Nabokov's Pnin -- Chapter 4. Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior: an '"I" book' or a 'small daughter' Narrative? -- Chapter 5. 'Su propio idioma': a Struggle between Languages of the Self in Richard Rodriguez's Hunger of Memory -- Chapter 6. Immigrant Irony and Embarrassment in Andrew Riemer's Memoirs Inside Outside and The Habsburg Cafe -- Chapter 7. The Subtlety of 'Subtitles': Kazuo Ishiguro's An Artist of the Floating World.

ISBN

• 3906766985
• 0820456144 (New York : pbk.)

OCLC

• 49641409
• SCSB-12857546

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library