Anna Ziajka Stanton

The Worlding of Arabic Literature

Language, Affect, and the Ethics of Translatability

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the translation of Arabic literature into English, in conversation with contemporary literary scholarship and classical Arabic aesthetic and linguistic paradigms. Case studies reveal practices of translating that activate embodied forms of language and affective modes of reception to position Arabic literature ethically in the world literary system.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Fordham University Press
• New ed
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. April 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 374g
• ISBN-13: 9781531503222
• ISBN-10: 1531503225
• Artikelnr.: 65603265

Autorenporträt

Anna Ziajka Stanton

Inhaltsangabe

Note on Translations and Transliterations ix Introduction: From Embargo to Boom: The Changing World of Arabic Literature in English 1 1 Sonics of Lafz. : Translating Arabic Acoustics for Anglophone Ears 27 2 Vulgarity of Saj
: The Scandalous Pleasures of Burton's The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night 56 3 Ethics of the Muthann
: Caring for the Other in a Mother Tongue 83 4
Ajam
Politics and Aesthetic Experience: Translating the Body in Pain 113 Conclusion: Beyond Untranslatability 140 Acknowledgments 157 Notes 161 Bibliography 197 Index 219