Research Catalog

Title

Anglophone literatures in the Asian diaspora : literary transnationalism and translingual migrations / Karen An-hwei Lee.

Author

Lee, Karen An-hwei, 1973-

Publication

Amherst, New York : Cambria Press, [2013]

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Details

Description

xxvi, 278 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

"Conversant in critical and creative modes of thought, this book examines the uses of translation in Asian and Anglophone literatures to bridge discontinuous subjectivities in Eurasian transnational identities and translingual hybridizations of literary Modernism. Anglophone Literatures in the Asian Diaspora: Literary Transnationalism and Translingual Migrations focuses on the roles of mysticism and language in Dictée's poetic deconstruction of empire, engaging metaphysical issues salient in the history of translation studies to describe how Theresa Cha and four other authors--Sui Sin Far, Chuang Hua, Kazuo Ishiguro, and Virginia Woolf--used figurative and actual translations to bridge discontinuous subjectivities. The author Karen Lee's explorations of linguistic politics and poetics in this eclectic group of writers concentrates on the play of innovative language deployed to negotiate divided or multiple consciousness."

Series Statement

Cambria sinophone world series

Uniform Title

Cambria sinophone world series.

Subject

• Commonwealth literature (English) > History and criticism
• Asian diaspora
• Translating and interpreting
• Literature and transnationalism
• Postcolonialism in literature
• East and West

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

ISBN

• 9781604978605 (alk. paper)
• 1604978600 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2013026816

OCLC

• 854848082
• SCSB-11122651

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library