LINGUIST List 20.958
Wed Mar 18 2009
Books: Translation: Shamma
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1. Ken
Baker,
Translation and the Manipulation of Difference: Shamma
Message 1: Translation and the Manipulation of Difference: Shamma
Date: 18-Mar-2009
From: Ken Baker <StJeromecompuserve.com>
Subject: Translation and the Manipulation of Difference: Shamma
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Title: Translation and the Manipulation of Difference
Subtitle: Arabic Literature in Nineteenth-Century England
Published: 2009
Publisher: St. Jerome Publishing Ltd
http://www.stjerome.co.uk
Author: Tarek Shamma
Paperback: ISBN: 1905763158 9781905763153 Pages: 148 Price: U.K. £ 22.50 Comment: no postage
Abstract:
Translation and the Manipulation of Difference explores the question ofdifference in translation and offers an extended critique of the advocacyof foreignizing translation as a practice that does not minimize thealterity of the foreign text, and could therefore serve as an antidote toethnocentrism and cultural insularity.
Shamma examines the reception of Arabic literature - especially the ArabianNights - in nineteenth-century England and offers a detailed analysis ofthe period's major translations from Arabic: by Edward Lane, Richard Burtonand Wilfred Blunt. He demonstrates that the long, complicated history ofinteraction, often confrontation, between Europe and the Arab World, where(mis)representations of the Other were intricately embroiled with politicalstruggles, provides a critical position from which to examine the crucialrole of context, above and beyond the textual elements of the translation,in shaping the political effects of translation. Examining translationtechniques and decisions in the context of the translators' own goals aswell as the conditions that surrounded the reception of their work, thestudy shows how each translator 'manipulated' his original in line withpolitical positions that ranged from (implicit) acquiescence to steadfastresistance to colonialism. In a carefully elaborated critique of totalizingpositions, the author argues that the foreignizing-domesticating model istoo limited to describe the social and political function of translationand calls for a more complex understanding of the sociopolitical dimensionsof translation strategies.
Linguistic Field(s):
Translation
Subject Language(s): English (eng)
Written In: English (eng )
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