Prophetic Translation

The Making of Modern Egyptian Literature

AvMaya I. Kesrouany

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

Del i serien Edinburgh Studies in Modern Arabic Literature

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Beskrivning

In this novel and pioneering study Maya I. Kesrouany explores the move from Qur’anic to secular approaches to literature in early 20th-century Egyptian literary translations, asking what we can learn from that period and the promise that translation held for the Egyptian writers of fiction at that time. Through their early adaptations, these writers crafted a prophetic, secular vocation for the narrator that gave access to a world of linguistic creation and interpretation unavailable to the common reader or the religious cleric. This book looks at the writers’ claim to secular prophecy as it manifests itself in the adapted narrative voice of their translations to suggest an original sense of literary resistance to colonial oppression and occupation in the early Arabic novel.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2019-01-09
Mått:156 x 234 x 23 mm
Vikt:520 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Edinburgh Studies in Modern Arabic Literature
Antal sidor:264
Förlag:Edinburgh University Press
ISBN:9781474407403

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Maya Kesrouany is Assistant Professor of Literature and Middle Eastern Studies at New York University Abu Dhabi (NYUAD). She is interested in exploring experimental political imaginaries, conversations in the public sphere, critical theory and cultural production.

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[...] Prophetic Translation offers important leads into the study of modern literary subjectivity and of our heavy inheritance of this very subjectivity as it denies its own social positionality

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction: Prophetic Tendencies: Egyptian Translators of the 20th Century Translation in Motion: A Survey of Literary Translation in Lebanon and Egypt During the NahḍaPlagiarised Prophecy in the Romantic Works of al-Manfalūṭī, al-ʿAqqād and al-MāzinīThe Hero at Home: Muḥammad al-Sibāʿī and Thomas CarlyleTarjama as Debt: The Making of a Secular History of Arabic LiteratureConclusion: The Prophet Today: The Novel in DistressBibliography