عنوان

Popular fiction, translation, and the Nahda in Egypt /

(Number (ISBN

303020362X

(Number (ISBN

9783030203627

Erroneous ISBN

3030203611

Erroneous ISBN

9783030203610

Title Proper

Popular fiction, translation, and the Nahda in Egypt /

General Material Designation

[Book]

First Statement of Responsibility

Samah Selim.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Cham, Switzerland :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Palgrave Macmillan,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

[2019]

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

1 online resource (xi, 232 pages)

Series Title

Literatures and cultures of the Islamic world

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Text of Note

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Bad Books for Bad Readers -- Chapter 3: The People's Entertainments -- Chapter 4: The Things of the Time: Cairo at the Turn of the Century -- Chapter 5: New Women and Novel Characters -- Chapter 6: Fiction and Colonial Identities -- Chapter 7: Pharaoh's Revenge -- Chapter 8: The Mysteries of Cairo.

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Text of Note

This book is a critical study of the translation and adaptation of popular fiction into Arabic at the turn of the twentieth century. It examines the ways in which the Egyptian nahda discourse with its emphasis on identity, authenticity and renaissance suppressed various forms of cultural and literary creation emerging from the encounter with European genres as well as indigenous popular literary forms and languages. The book explores the multiple and fluid translation practices of this period as a form of 'unauthorized translation that was not invested in upholding nationalist binaries of originality and imitation. Instead, translators experimented with radical and complex forms of adaptation that turned these binaries upside down. Through a series of close readings of novels published in the periodical The Peoples Entertainments, the book explores the nineteenth century literary, intellectual, juridical and economic histories that are constituted through translation, and outlines a comparative method of reading that pays particular attention to the circulation of genre across national borders.

Title

Popular fiction, translation, and the Nahda in Egypt.

International Standard Book Number

9783030203610

Arabic fiction-- Egypt-- History and criticism.

Books and reading-- Egypt-- History-- 20th century.

European fiction-- 20th century-- Translations into Arabic-- History and criticism.

Literature and society-- Egypt-- History-- 20th century.

Arabic fiction.

Books and reading.

Intellectual life.

Literature and society.

Egypt, Intellectual life, 20th century.

Egypt.

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Number

Edition

Class number

Book number

Selim, Samah

Date of Transaction

20200823091422.0

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