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eBook
Prophetic Translation
2018,2019,2022
Overview
Considers the changing role of literary translation in Egypt from the 1910s to the 1940sIn this novel and pioneering study Maya I. Kesrouany explores the move from Qur'anic to secular approaches to literature in early 20th-century Egyptian literary translations, asking what we can learn from that period and the promise that translation held for the Egyptian writers of fiction at that time. Through their early adaptations, these writers crafted a prophetic, secular vocation for the narrator that gave access to a world of linguistic creation and interpretation unavailable to the common reader or the religious cleric. This book looks at the writers' claim to secular prophecy as it manifests itself in the adapted narrative voice of their translations to suggest an original sense of literary resistance to colonial oppression and occupation in the early Arabic novel.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Subject
/ Arabic fiction -- Egypt -- History and criticism
/ Arabic fiction -- Translations into English -- History and criticism
/ Egypt
/ HISTORY / Middle East / Egypt (see also Ancient / Egypt)
/ HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century
/ LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Middle Eastern
/ LITERARY CRITICISM / Books & Reading
/ LITERARY CRITICISM / Middle Eastern
/ LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century
/ Religion and literature -- Egypt -- History -- 20th century
ISBN
9781474407403, 1474407404
