In this novel and pioneering study Maya I. Kesrouany explores the move from Qur'anic to secular approaches to literature in early 20th-century Egyptian literary translations, asking what we can learn from that period and the promise that translation held for the Egyptian writers of fiction at that time. Through their early adaptations, these writers crafted a prophetic, secular vocation for the narrator that gave access to a world of linguistic creation and interpretation unavailable to the common reader or the religious cleric.
This book looks at the writers' claim to secular prophecy as it manifests itself in the adapted narrative voice of their translations to suggest an original sense of literary resistance to colonial oppression and occupation in the early Arabic novel.
| ISBN: | 9781474474504 |
| Publication date: | 25th August 2020 |
| Author: | Maya Kesrouany |
| Publisher: | Edinburgh University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 264 pages |
| Series: | Edinburgh Studies in Modern Arabic Literature |
| Genres: |
Islam Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers General and world history Middle Eastern history Anthologies: general Literature: history and criticism |
In this novel and pioneering study Maya I. Kesrouany explores the move from Qur'anic to secular approaches to literature in early 20th-century Egyptian literary translations, asking what we can learn from that period and the promise that translation held for the Egyptian writers of fiction at that time.
Prophetic Translation features in the following genres: Islam, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, General and world history, Middle Eastern history, Anthologies: general, Literature: history and criticism
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Prophetic Translation was written by Maya Kesrouany and published by Edinburgh University Press
Prophetic Translation has 264 pages
Yes it is part of Edinburgh Studies in Modern Arabic Literature series
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