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Author Tageldin, Shaden M., author.

Title Disarming words : empire and the seductions of translation in Egypt / Shaden M. Tageldin
Published Berkeley : University of California Press, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 348 pages) : illustrations
Series FlashPoints ; 5
Flashpoints (Berkeley, Calif.) ; 5.
Contents Note on Translation and Transliteration -- Overture : Cultural Imperialism Revisited: Translation, Seduction, Power -- The Irresistible Lure of Recognition -- The Dismantling I : Al-Attar's Antihistory of the French in Egypt, 1798-1799 -- Suspect Kinships : Al-Tahtawi and the Theory of French-Arabic "Equivalence," 1827-1834 -- Surrogate Seed, World-Tree : Mubarak, al-Sibai, and the Translations of "Islam" in British Egypt, 1882-1912 -- Order, Origin, and the Elusive Sovereign : Post-1919 Nation Formation and the Imperial Urge toward Translatability -- English Lessons : The Illicit Copulations of Egypt at Empire's End -- Coda : History, Affect, and the Problem of the Universal
Summary In a book that radically challenges conventional understandings of the dynamics of cultural imperialism, Shaden M. Tageldin unravels the complex relationship between translation and seduction in the colonial context. She examines the afterlives of two occupations of Egypt--by the French in 1798 and by the British in 1882--in a rich comparative analysis of acts, fictions, and theories that translated the European into the Egyptian, the Arab, or the Muslim. Tageldin finds that the encounter with European Orientalism often invited colonized Egyptians to imagine themselves "equal" to or even "master
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Translating and interpreting -- Egypt -- History -- 19th century
Translating and interpreting -- Egypt -- History -- 20th century
Postcolonialism -- Egypt
Comparative literature -- Arabic and English
Comparative literature -- English -- Congresses
Language and languages in literature.
Translating and interpreting.
Translating
translation (function)
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Translating & Interpreting.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
Language and languages in literature
Postcolonialism
Translating and interpreting
SUBJECT Egypt
Subject Egypt
Genre/Form proceedings (reports)
Conference papers and proceedings
History
Conference papers and proceedings.
Actes de congrès.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2011005499
ISBN 9780520950047
0520950046
1283278340
9781283278348