عنوان

Transfiction:

Number

TLpq2453693506

.Language of Text, Soundtrack etc

انگلیسی

Title Proper

Transfiction:

General Material Designation

[Thesis]

First Statement of Responsibility

Alsultan, Aljazi

Title Proper by Another Author

Conceptulizing Translation Through Fiction: A Study of Fawaz Haddad's the Traitorous Translator

Subsequent Statement of Responsibility

Pettid, Michael

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

State University of New York at Binghamton

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2020

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

235

Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree

Ph.D.

Body granting the degree

State University of New York at Binghamton

Text preceding or following the note

2020

Text of Note

This project aims to investigate and exemplify the use of translation as a theme and of the translator as a character in fiction in order to argue the usefulness of fiction as a source for insights on translation. Through a part theoretical analysis/ part translation of Fawaz Haddad's novel ( Al-Mutarjim al-Kha'in, The Traitorous Translator), this project will look at how the novel portrays translation as a creative resistant act, in opposition to the mainstream "essentialist" conceptions of translation that confine it to a mere act of mechanical reproduction. It also portrays a translator who resists the traditional conception of translators as invisible agents tasked with transporting meaning from one language into another. The novel utilizes this thread of translation as resistance to further critique the institutional restraints imposed on writing and creative thought by the hegemonic Syrian literary and political system. A translation of chapters from the novel will provide examples to support such rationale and document issues encountered in the translation process.

Fiction

Literature

Middle Eastern literature

Translation studies

Alsultan, Aljazi

Pettid, Michael

Electronic name

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[Thesis]

276903

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