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Record Nr.

UNINA9910783775103321

Titolo

Cultural encounters in translation from Arabic / / Said Faiq

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Blue Ridge Summit, PA : , : Multilingual Matters, , [2004]

©2004

ISBN

1-280-82839-0

9786610828395

9781853597451

1-85359-745-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (150 pages)

Collana

Topics in Translation

Disciplina

418.02

Soggetti

Arabic language - Translating

Translating and interpreting

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 128-136) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- 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 Arabic -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Translation is intercultural communication in its purest form. Its power in forming and/or deforming cultural identities has only recently been acknowledged, given the attention it deserves. The chapters in this unique volume assess translation from Arabic into other languages from different perspectives: the politics, economics, ethics, and poetics of translating from Arabic; a language often neglected in western mainstream translation studies.