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Lost and Found

in Translation

Contemporary Ethnic American

Writing and the Politics

of Language Diversity

The University of North Carolina Press Chapel Hill

Manufactured in the United States of America

Designed and typeset in Adobe Garamond by BW&A Books, Inc.

Chapter has been reprinted in revised form from Criticism ( ):

– , by permission of Wayne State University Press.

An excerpt from “Drowning in My Own Language” has been reprinted

from Mitsuye Yamada, Camp Notes and Other Writings , © , ,

, , by Mitsuye Yamada, by permission of Rutgers University

Press. “Querida Compañera” has been reprinted from Cherríe Moraga,

Loving in the War Years , by permission of South End Press.

This book was published with the assistance of the Anniversary

Endowment Fund of the University of North Carolina Press.

The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence

and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book

Longevity of the Council on Library Resources.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Cutter, Martha J.

Lost and found in translation : contemporary ethnic American writing

and the politics of language diversity / Martha J. Cutter.

p.cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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. American literature — Minority authors — History and criticism.

. Language and languages — Political aspects — United States.

. Minorities — United States — Intellectual life. . Pluralism (Social

sciences) in literature. . Ethnic relations in literature. . Ethnic groups

in literature. . United States — Languages. . Minorities in literature.

. Ethnicity in literature. I. Title.

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