Borrowed Tongues

Life Writing, Migration, and Translation

Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, Feminist Criticism, Nonfiction, Reference & Language, Language Arts, Translating & Interpreting, Biography & Memoir
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Author: Eva C. Karpinski ISBN: 9781554584000
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press Publication: May 1, 2012
Imprint: Wilfrid Laurier University Press Language: English
Author: Eva C. Karpinski
ISBN: 9781554584000
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Publication: May 1, 2012
Imprint: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Language: English

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Translation as Allegorical Metafiction: Marlene Nourbese Philip and Jamaica Kincaid

Eva C. Karpinski

The last chapter examines translation as allegorical metafiction in Marlene Nourbese Philip’s Looking for Livingstone and Jamaica Kincaid’s The Autobiography of My Mother.These postcolonial texts replace Eurocentric vertical models of translation as power imposition from above with horizontal  models of creolization and creative borrowing.

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Translation as Allegorical Metafiction: Marlene Nourbese Philip and Jamaica Kincaid

Eva C. Karpinski

The last chapter examines translation as allegorical metafiction in Marlene Nourbese Philip’s Looking for Livingstone and Jamaica Kincaid’s The Autobiography of My Mother.These postcolonial texts replace Eurocentric vertical models of translation as power imposition from above with horizontal  models of creolization and creative borrowing.

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