The Worlding of Arabic Literature : Language, Affect, and the Ethics of Translatability.

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...

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Main Author: Stanton, Anna Ziajka.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Fordham University Press, 2023.
Edition:1st ed.
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505 0 |a Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Note on Translations and Transliterations -- Introduction. From Embargo to Boom: The Changing World of Arabic Literature in English -- 1 Sonics of Lafẓ: Translating Arabic Acoustics for Anglophone Ears -- 2 Vulgarity of Sajʿ: The Scandalous Pleasures of Burton's The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night -- 3 Ethics of the Muthannā: Caring for the Other in a Mother Tongue -- 4 ʿAjamī Politics and Aesthetic Experience: Translating the Body in Pain -- Conclusion: Beyond Untranslatability -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. 
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