عنوان

Translating the Arab World: Contingent Commensuration, Publishing, and the Shaping of a Global Commodity

Number

TL47985

.Language of Text, Soundtrack etc

انگلیسی

Title Proper

Translating the Arab World: Contingent Commensuration, Publishing, and the Shaping of a Global Commodity

General Material Designation

[Thesis]

First Statement of Responsibility

Elizabeth Anne Kelley

Subsequent Statement of Responsibility

Briggs, Charles; Pandolfo, Stefania

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

University of California, Berkeley

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2014

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

157

Text of Note

Committee members: Hirschkind, Charles; Naddaff, Ramona

Text of Note

Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-321-25962-9

Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree

Ph.D.

Discipline of degree

Anthropology

Body granting the degree

University of California, Berkeley

Text preceding or following the note

2014

Text of Note

In the dissertation, I explore the translation, publishing, and marketing process of Arabic novels in English. My research examines how translations of Arabic novels are produced as a commodity within a globalized publishing industry and circulate in a highly-charged political context. In the process, these novels-and the individuals involved in making them-produce, resist, respond to, and incorporate ideas and representations of the Arab world in the West or English-speaking world. The dissertation asks what kind of translation is possible in a cultural and political landscape shaped by wars, sanctions, media stereotypes, and histories of colonization. In each of my chapters, I address the specific practices of translation, editing, and branding that produce the novel as a global commodity that serves as an interface between the West and the Arab world. My ethnographic research was primarily conducted in Cairo, Egypt in 2010, where I worked at the American University in Cairo Press, the largest publisher of translations from Arabic to English. While there, I conducted extensive interviews and fieldwork with translators and Egyptian authors.

Middle Eastern literature; Cultural anthropology; Literary translation; Globalization; Cultural differences; English; Art; Arabic language; Language culture relationship; Business; Novels; Fieldwork; Lexicon; Mass media; Stereotypes; Political factors; Translators; Editing

Subject Term

Language, literature and linguistics;Social sciences;Arab world;Circulation;Globalization;Representation;Translation;Transnational

Smith, Benjamin Lenox

Briggs, Charles; Pandolfo, Stefania

Subdivision

Anthropology

University of California, Berkeley

Call Number

1625970555; 3640499

Electronic name

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[Thesis]

276903

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