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

✍ Scribed by Anna Ziajka Stanton

Publisher: Fordham University Press
Year: 2023
Tongue: English
Leaves: 238
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

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.

An intervention in translation theory that attends both to aesthetics and to ethics and politics.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Note on Translations and Transliterations
Introduction. From Embargo to Boom: The Changing World of Arabic Literature in English
1 Sonics of Lafz. : 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
About the Author

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