Finding a Voice: Asian Women in Britiain Asian Women in Britain (New and Expanded Edition)

A História do Português desde o Big Bang visita a mais remota história da língua, muito antes do latim: mostra a origem das línguas da Europa, como se desenvolveu o português na Península, quem deu nome à língua, o que aconteceu no Brasil e como o português se transformou noutras línguas, os crioulos, que revelam muito mais sobre a humanidade do que pensamos. No final, o livro também imagina como será a língua daqui a 500 anos, quando Os Lusíadas fizerem mil anos. Que língua se falará então?Este livro baseia-se em ciências como a física e a biologia para contar a história da nossa língua. Só compreenderemos a origem do português se compreendermos a origem da humanidade e só compreenderemos o funcionamento da língua se compreendermos o cérebro humano e o Universo em que se insere. A História do Português desde o Big Bang tem uma visão original da humanidade, plasmada numa ideia, a do círculo da traduzibilidade. O filho de qualquer ser humano pode aprender qualquer língua humana — e não aprende nenhuma linguagem animal, por mais que tente. Tudo o que um ser humano diz ou escreve pode ser traduzido para todas as línguas da humanidade, por qualquer pessoa, independentemente da raça ou do sexo. No entanto, a humanidade nunca poderia falar uma só língua. Estamos condenados a traduzir. Também por isso, a ideia da intraduzibilidade é profundamente contrária à ideia de humanidade. "Finding a Voice - Asian Women in Britain published in 1978 and winner of the Martin Luther King award, was, and remains, an influential feminist book. Based on interviews, discussions and intimate one-to- one conversations with South Asian women, conducted often in Urdu, Hindi or Bengali (if they were most at ease in these languages) and sensitively translated, the book explores what it was like to be a migrant, a worker, and a woman straddled between two cultures in late 1970s Britain. Through women's experiences, feelings and analysis of their own lives it examines family relationships, growing militancy at work, experiences of racist and misogynistic immigration policies, school life and also friendship and love. Some of the iconic anti-racist and working-class struggles and other key events of the 1970s which have a powerful resonance today are described here from the point of view of the Asian women who participated in them. Among them is the strike at the Grunwick photo processing plant, which was led by the indomitable Jayaben Desai and drew support from thousands of trade unionists and feminists from all over Britain and is today once again an inspiration for many low-paid workers in Britain's gig economy. The book also examines, again through South Asian women's voices, the horrors of the first immigration detention centres and so-called 'virginity testing'; issues of mental health and isolation. This edition of the book includes a remarkable new chapter titled 'Reflecting on Finding a Voice in 2018' in which young South Asian women in Britain describe what the book means to them today and in what ways their lives are different, and similar, to those of the women in the book. In this context they write, among other things, about organising against violence against women, Islamophobia, racism of the white middle-classes, struggles against heteronormativity, the battles for justice at Yarlswood detention centre, commemorating the Grunwick strike and the ups and downs of mother-daughter relationships in South Asian families."-- Provided by publisher First published in 1978, and winning the Martin Luther King Memorial Prize for that year, Finding a Voice established a new discourse on South Asian women's lives and struggles in Britain. Through discussions, interviews and intimate one-to-one conversations with South Asian women, in Urdu, Hindi, Bengali and English, it explored family relationships, the violence of immigration policies, deeply colonial mental health services, militancy at work and also friendship and love. The seventies was a time of some iconic anti-racist and working-class struggles. They are presented here from the point of view of the women who participated in and led them. This new edition includes a preface by Meena Kandasamy, some historic photographs, and a remarkable new chapter titled 'In conversation with Finding a Voice: 40 years on' in which younger South Asian women write about their own lives and struggles weaving them around those portrayed in the book. First published in 1978, this Martin Luther King Memorial Prize-winner is a study of Asian women in Britain. The book looks at attitudes to love and marriage, family relationships and friendships, as well as recounting experiences of racism in housing and education and at the hands of the law.