The Worlding of Arabic Literature: Language, by Anna Ziajka Stanton PAPERBACK

Fordham University Press

The Worlding of Arabic LiteratureLanguage, Affect, and the Ethics of Translatability\nAuthor(s): Anna Ziajka Stanton\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Fordham University Press, United States\nImprint: Fordham University Press\nISBN-13: 9781531503222, 978-1531503222\nSynopsis\nWINNER, ALDO AND JEANNE SCAGLIONE PRIZE FOR MIDDLE EASTERN STUDIES\n Critics have long viewed translating Arabic literature into English as an ethically fraught process of mediating between two wholly incommensurable languages, cultures, and literary traditions. Today, Arabic literature is no longer \""embargoed\"" from Anglophone cultural spaces, as Edward Said once famously claimed that it was. As Arabic literary works are translated into English in ever-greater numbers, what alternative model of translation ethics can account for this literature's newfound readability in the hegemonic language of the world literary system? \n The Worlding of Arabic Literature argues that an ethical translation of a work of Arabic .