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Record Nr.

UNINA9910686769203321

Autore

Stanton Anna Ziajka

Titolo

The Worlding of Arabic Literature : Language, Affect, and the Ethics of Translatability / / Anna Ziajka Stanton

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Fordham University Press, , 2022

ISBN

9781531503246

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (239 pages)

Disciplina

892.709

Soggetti

Arabic literature

Translating and interpreting - Moral and ethical aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.