Cultural Encounters in Translation from Arabic / / ed. by Said Faiq.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter MultiLingual Matters Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Abdul-Raof, Hussein,; Amit-Kochavi, Hannah,; Carbonell, Ovidi,; Faiq, Said,; Holt, Mike,; Jacquemond, Richard,; Leeuwen, Richard van,; Muhawi, Ibrahim,; Rooke, Tetz,; Sara, Solomon I.,
• HerausgeberIn: Faiq, Said,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol ;, Blue Ridge Summit : : Multilingual Matters, , [2004]; ©2004
• Year of Publication: 2004
• Language: English
• Series: Topics in Translation
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (152 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Notes on Contributors -- Chapter 1. The Cultural Encounter in Translating from Arabic -- Chapter 2. The Cultural Context of Translating Arabic Literature -- Chapter 3. Exoticism, Identity and Representation in Western Translation from Arabic -- Chapter 4. Autobiography, Modernity and Translation -- Chapter 5. Integrating Arab Culture into Israeli Identity through Literary Translations from Arabic into Hebrew -- Chapter 6. Translating Islamist Discourse -- Chapter 7. On Translating Oral Style in Palestinian Folktales -- CHAPTER 8. The Qur’an: Limits of Translatability -- Chapter 9. Translating Native Arabic Linguistic Terminology -- Chapter 10. Towards an Economy and Poetics of Translation from and into Arabic -- Bibliography -- Index