Title Translation and the manipulation of difference : Arabic literature in nineteenth-century England / Tarek Shamma

Published Manchester [England] ; Kinderhood, NY : St. Jerome Pub., 2009

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Description 1 online resource (140 pages) Contents Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Half Title; Table of Contents; Introduction; 1. Colonial Representation and the Uses of Literalism; 1. The Age of Galland; Galland and His Readers; 2. Galland Reconsidered; 3. Lane and The Arabian Nights; The British Colonial Interest in Egypt; The Describer of Egypt; The Arabian Nights; "An epoch in the history of popular Eastern literature"; Literal Translation and the Exhibitionary Complex; Literalism in Postcolonial Theories; 2. The Exotic Dimension of Foreignizing Strategies; 1. A Rebel Manqué; The "Pilgrimage" to Mecca; 2. Burton the Translator The Arabian NightsBurton and his Readers; Contextualizing the Nights; "Oriental in tone and colour"; "A complete picture of Eastern peoples"; 3. Foreignism or Exoticism?; 4. Venuti on Burton; 3. Domestication as Resistance; 1. Looking for a Cause; In Byron's Footsteps; 2. A "Political First Love"; The "Rob Roy of the Desert"; "Shepard rule"; 3. The "scourge of the oppressor"; Blunt and the Irish Literary Revival; 4. Blunt the Translator; A New Rúbaiyāt?; 5. Translation as a Political Act; Conclusion Translation as Adjustment; References; Index Summary Translation and the Manipulation of Difference explores the question of difference in translation and offers an extended critique of the advocacy of foreignizing translation as a practice that does not minimize the alterity of the foreign text, and could therefore serve as an antidote to ethnocentrism and cultural insularity. Shamma examines the reception of Arabic literature - especially the Arabian Nights - in nineteenth-century England and offers a detailed analysis of the period's major translations from Arabic: by Edward Lane, Richard Burton and Wilfred Blunt. He demonstrates tha Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 125-132) and index Notes Print version record Subject Arabic language -- Translating into English -- History -- 19th century Translating and interpreting -- Political aspects -- England -- History -- 19th century Arabic literature -- Translations into English -- History and criticism Language and culture -- England -- History -- 19th century LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- General. Arabic language -- Translating into English Arabic literature Language and culture Translating and interpreting -- Political aspects England Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Translations Form Electronic book ISBN 9781317641599 1317641590

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