Nation and Translation in the Middle East

ISBN-13: 9781138473829 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 230 str.

Opis

In the Middle East, translation movements and the debates they have unleashed on language, culture and the politics and practices of identity have historically been tied to processes of state formation and administration. This book focuses on translation in the region, with special emphasis on translation movements and the production of modernity.

Spis treści

The volume opens with two essays that situate translation at the intersection of national canons, post colonial cultural hegemonies and 'private' market or activist-based initiatives in Egypt and Turkey. Other contributions discuss the utility of translation paradigms as a counterweight to the dominant orientalist historiography of modern print culture in the Arab World; the role of the translator as political agent and social reformer in twentieth-century Egypt; and the relationship between language, translation and the politics of identity in the multi-ethnic and multilingual Islamicate contexts of the Abbasid and Mughal Empires. The volume also includes a general bibliography on translation and the Middle East.

O autorze

Samah Selim is an associate professor at Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA. She is the author of The Novel and the Rural Imaginary in Egypt (Routledge 2004).