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

• Main Author: Baldo, Michela (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Translation and interpretation.; Literature-Translations.; Emigration and immigration.; America-Literatures.; Fiction.; Sociology.; Translation.; Translation Studies.; Migration.; North American Literature.; Gender Studies.

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...

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. .