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The Worlding of Arabic Literature: Language, Affect, and the Ethics of Translatability

The Worlding of Arabic Literature: Language, Affect, and the Ethics of Translatability - Paperback

by Anna Ziajka Stanton
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Availability:In StockContributor:Anna Ziajka StantonPublish date:2023-04-25Pages:240
Language:EnglishPublisher:Fordham University PressISBN-13:9781531503222ISBN-10:1531503225UPC:9781531503222Book Category:Literary Criticism, Social Science, Language Arts & DisciplinesBook Subcategory:Middle Eastern, Ethnic StudiesBook Topic:Middle Eastern StudiesSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.55 inchesWeight:0.7915Product ID:SC7G696YT5
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.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Fordham University PressISBN-13:9781531503222ISBN-10:1531503225UPC:9781531503222Book Category:Literary Criticism, Social Science, Language Arts & DisciplinesBook Subcategory:Middle Eastern, Ethnic StudiesBook Topic:Middle Eastern StudiesSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.55 inchesWeight:0.7915Product ID:SC7G696YT5
Anna Ziajka Stanton is Caroline D. Eckhardt Early Career Professor of Comparative Literature and Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at the Pennsylvania State University. She has published articles in the Journal of Arabic Literature, Philological Encounters, the Journal of World Literature, the Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry, and Middle Eastern Literatures. Stanton is the translator of Hilal Chouman's Limbo Beirut, which was longlisted for the 2017 PEN Translation Prize and shortlisted for the 2017 Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation. She has been an editor at the Journal of Arabic Literature since 2014.
Publisher: Fordham University Press

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