Anna Ziajka Stanton, "The Worlding of Arabic Literature: Language, Affect, and the Ethics of Translatability"
English | ISBN: 1531503225 | 2023 | 240 pages | PDF | 1504 KB
English | ISBN: 1531503225 | 2023 | 240 pages | PDF | 1504 KB
WINNER, ALDO AND JEANNE SCAGLIONE PRIZE FOR MIDDLE EASTERN STUDIES
Critics have long viewed translating Arabic literature into English as an ethically fraught process of mediating between two wholly incommensurable languages, cultures, and literary traditions. Today, Arabic literature is no longer “embargoed” from Anglophone cultural spaces, as Edward Said once famously claimed that it was. As Arabic literary works are translated into English in ever-greater numbers, what alternative model of translation ethics can account for this literature’s newfound readability in the hegemonic language of the world literary system?
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