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020			_a9781531503222 _q(paperback)
020			_a9781531503215 _q(hardback)
020			_z9781531503239 _q(epub)
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050	0	0	_aPJ7518.5 _b.S73 2023
082	0	0	_a428/.040927 _223/eng/20230210
100	1		_aStanton, Anna Ziajka, _eauthor.
245	1	4	_aThe worlding of Arabic literature : _blanguage, affect, and the ethics of translatability / _cAnna Ziajka Stanton.
250			_aFirst edition.
263			_a1111
264		1	_aNew York : _bFordham University Press, _c2023.
300			_a224 ; pages _c24 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_a"Critics have long viewed translating Arabic literature into English as an ethically fraught process of mediating between two wholly incommensurable languages, cultures, and literary traditions. Today, Arabic literature is no longer "embargoed" from Anglophone cultural spaces, as Edward Said once famously claimed that it was. As Arabic literary works are translated into English in ever-greater numbers, what alternative model of translation ethics can account for this literature's newfound readability in the hegemonic language of the world literary system? The Worlding of Arabic Literature argues that an ethical translation of a work of Arabic literature is one that transmits the literariness of the source text by engaging new populations of readers via a range of embodied and sensory effects. The book proposes that when translation is conceived of not as an exchange of semantic content but as a process of converting the affective forms of one language into those of another, previously unrecognized modalities of worldliness open up to the source text. In dialogue with a rich corpus of Arabic aesthetic and linguistic theory as well as contemporary scholarship in affect theory, translation theory, postcolonial theory, and world literature studies, this book offers a timely and provocative investigation of how an important literary tradition enters the world literary system. The Worlding of Arabic Literature: Language, Affect, and the Ethics of Translatability is available from the publisher on an open-access basis"-- _cProvided by publisher.
650	1	0	_aArabic literature _xTranslations into English _xHistory and criticism.
650	1	0	_aArabic literature _xAppreciation.
650	1	0	_aTranslating and interpreting _xMoral and ethical aspects.
655		7	_aLiterary criticism. _2lcgft
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