Reading Iraqi Women's Novels in English Translation: Iraqi Women's Stories

ISBN-13: 9780367857172 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 110 str.

Ruth Abou Rached

Opis

By exploring how translation has shaped the literary contexts of six Iraqi woman writers, this book offers new insights into their translation pathways as part of their stories’ politics of meaning-making.

Recenzje

"It is a valuable read for scholars of translation studies, Arabic literature (especially Iraqi women’s literature), and women and gender studies—among others. In short, Abou Rached is on the pulse of contemporary Iraqi women’s writing in translation and achieves the purpose she has set out for: to provide a focused overview and encourage further research." - International Journal of Middle East Studies

"... this incisive study sets an excellent example of the productive ways “para/translatory politics” can be engaged with in literary studies. Its prioritization of close readings is particularly commendable, guiding readers through the mechanics and challenges of translation in forensic detail. As it lingers in these intricacies, it offers a much-needed intervention when a growing number of texts by Iraqi authors are circulating in translation." - Middle Eastern Literatures

Spis treści

Chapter 1: Pathways of Iraqi women’s story-writing in English translation; Chapter 2: Translating ‘the Uncanny’- Samira Al-Mana and Daizy Al-Amir; Chapter 3: Translating gendered dis/location in post-2003 Iraq - Inaam Kachachi; Chapter 4: Conversations about ‘solidarity among the subaltern’ - Betool Khedairi; Chapter 5: Re/writing confrontations in translation: Alia Mamdouh and Hadiya Hussein; Ongoing questions: re/reading Iraq women’s stories in English (para) translation

O autorze

Ruth Abou Rached is a Research Fellow at The University of Manchester and specialises in teaching Translation Studies, Modern Foreign Languages and Arabic studies to widen university access to under-represented groups. Her work on Iraqi women’s literature was inspired by community work in the UK and living in the Middle East. Her research interests include Iraqi and Arab women’s writing, Palestinian and other exilic literatures, postcolonial literary studies and intersectional feminist translation theories. She is editor for　New Voices in Translation Studies, International Association of Translation and Intercultural Studies (IATIS).