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Whitewashing Arabic for global consumption: translating race in The Story of Zahra
- Author(s):
- Ghenwa Hayek (see profile)
- Date:
- 2017
- Subject(s):
- Arabic literature, Literature, Modern, Cross-cultural studies, Middle Eastern literature, Middle East, Area studies
- Item Type:
- Article
- Tag(s):
- Modern Arabic literature, Translation studies, Transcultural studies and practices, Middle Eastern studies
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M6R546
- Abstract:
- This article argues that, in reading comparatively the Arabic and English versions of Hanan al-Shaykh’s 1980 Hikayat Zahra, a pattern of omitting race and racial language emerges in the English version, published in 1986. I use a close reading of the translation’s selective appropriation of the original’s racial and political language to argue for a more intersectional approach to Arabic women’s writing, even as I acknowledge the structural and institutional contexts and constraints under which they operate and circulate in the global market of ‘world literature’.
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- xml
- Published as:
- Journal article
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 5 years ago
- License:
- All Rights Reserved
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