Cultural Encounters in Translation from Arabic,9781853597435

Cultural Encounters in Translation from Arabic

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ISBN13: 9781853597435
ISBN10: 1853597430
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2004-09-08
Publisher(s): Multilingual Matters
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Summary

Translation is intercultural communication in its purest form. Its power in forming and/or deforming cultural identities has only recently been acknowledged, given the attention it deserves. The chapters in this unique volume assess translation from Arabic into other languages from different perspectives: the politics, economics, ethics, and poetics of translating from Arabic; a language often neglected in western mainstream translation studies.

Author Biography

Said Faiq is Associate Professor of Translation Studies at the American University of Sharjah, where he is Chair of the Department of English & Translation Studies and Director of the Graduate program in Translation & Interpreting. Prior to this, he taught at the School of Languages, Salford University, UK. He has published widely on (Arabic) translation and cultural studies.

Table of Contents

Preface vi
Notes on Contributors x
The Cultural Encounter in Translating from Arabic
1(13)
Said Faiq
The Cultural Context of Translating Arabic Literature
14(12)
Richard van Leeuwen
Exoticism, Identity and Representation in Western Translation from Arabic
26(14)
Ovidi Carbonell
Autobiography, Modernity and Translation
40(11)
Tetz Rooke
Integrating Arab Culture into Israeli Identity through Literary Translations from Arabic into Hebrew
51(12)
Hannah Amit-Kochavi
Translating Islamist Discourse
63(12)
Mike Holt
On Translating Oral Style in Palestinian Folktales
75(16)
Ibrahim Muhawi
The Qur'an: Limits of Translatability
91(16)
Hussein Abdul-Raof
Translating Native Arabic Linguistic Terminology
107(10)
Solomon I. Sara
Towards an Economy and Poetics of Translation from and into Arabic
117(11)
Richard Jacquemond
Philip Tomlinson
Bibliography 128(9)
Index 137

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