Italian-Canadian Narratives of Return Analysing Cultural Translation in Diasporic Writing /

This book examines the concept of translation as a return to origins and as restitution of lost narratives, and is based on the idea of diaspora as a term that depicts the longing to return home and the imaginary reconstructions and reconstitutions of home by migrants and translators. The author ana...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Baldo, Michela (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: e-Book
Language:English
Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : 2019.
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
Edition:1st ed. 2019.
Subjects:
Translating and interpreting.
Comparative literature.
Emigration and immigration.
America > Literatures.
Fiction.
Sex.
Language Translation.
Comparative Literature.
Human Migration.
North American Literature.
Fiction Literature.
Gender Studies.
Online Access:Full-text access
Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1: Introduction: Translation, narratives and returns
  • Chapter 2: Italian-Canadian writing and narratives of translation as return: The Italian translations of Ricci's trilogy, Melfi's Italy revisited and Paci's Italian Shoes
  • Chapter 3: Towards a Narrative Model of Code-switching in Diasporic Writing
  • Chapter 4: Code-switching and return in Ricci, Melfi and Paci and in the Italian translations of their works
  • Chapter 5: Return as restoration and restitution
  • Chapter 6: Conclusions. .

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