Cultural Encounters in Translation from Arabic.
Title:
Cultural Encounters in Translation from Arabic.
Author:
Faiq, Said.
ISBN:
9781853597459
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (150 pages)
Series:
Topics in Translation S.
Contents:
Contents -- Preface -- Notes on Contributors -- Chapter 1 The Cultural Encounter in Translating from Arabic -- Chapter 2 The Cultural Context of Translating Arabic Literature -- Chapter 3 Exoticism, Identity and Representation in Western Translation from Arabic -- Chapter 4 Autobiography, Modernity and Translation -- Chapter 5 Integrating Arab Culture into Israeli Identity through Literary Translations from Arabic into Hebrew -- Chapter 6 Translating Islamist Discourse -- Chapter 7 On Translating Oral Style in Palestinian Folktales -- Chapter 8 The Qur'an: Limits of Translatability -- Chapter 9 Translating Native Arabic Linguistic Terminology -- Chapter 10 Towards an Economy and Poetics of Translation from and into Arabic1 -- Bibliography -- Index.
Abstract:
Mainstream translation studies hitherto have tended to neglect Arabic. This volume evaluates the ways in which translating from Arabic has helped to form and deform cultural identities, approaching the subject from a variety of perspectives: politics, economics, ethics and poetics.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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