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Ḥanān al-Shaykh’s Innahā Lundun Yā ‘Azīzī
| Content Provider | Scilit |
|---|---|
| Author | Benmessaoud, Sanaa |
| Copyright Year | 2019 |
| Description | Using critical discourse analysis, this chapter examines Hanan Al-Shaykh's Innaha Lundun Ya 'Azīzī (2001) and its English translation Only in London (2001), to answer three main questions: how does Al-Shaykh negotiate her position as a British-Arab author who writes in Arabic about Arabs but who has become mainstreamed in the West? How does she navigate her way as a female subject at the intersection of local and transnational dominant discourses on women, in a context overdetermined by a range of deep-impacting factors ranging from the geopolitical climate and (Anglo-American) readers' expectations, to publishers' strictures and marketing strategies? Finally, how was the novel further refracted during the process of (re)translation? Analysis reveals a tension between the author's will to challenge misconceptions, on the one hand, and her need to hold the attention of her Anglo-American readers by addressing them in familiar aesthetics, on the other. It also shows that this tension is resolved in translation through a substantial reduction of the discursive heterogeneity present in the original. The chapter argues that this resolution comes at the expense of the author's agency and that Al-Shaykh, whose voice has been mainstreamed through translation, appears to lose much of her voice in the process of translation. Book Name: The Routledge Handbook of Arabic Translation |
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| Ending Page | 464 |
| Page Count | 18 |
| Starting Page | 447 |
| DOI | 10.4324/9781315661346-28 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited |
| Publisher Date | 2019-12-09 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Book Name: The Routledge Handbook of Arabic Translation Cultural Studies Al Shaykh Translation Arabic Azīzī Tension Lundun |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Chapter |
