Description: Disarming Words : Empire and the Seductions of Translation in Egypt, Paperback by Tageldin, Shaden M., ISBN 0520265521, ISBN-13 9780520265523, Brand New, Free shipping in the US 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 “masters” of their colonizers, and thus, paradoxically, to translate themselves toward—virtually into—the European. Moving beyond the domination/resistance binary that continues to govern understandings of colonial history, Tageldin redefines cultural imperialism as a politics of translational seduction, a politics that lures the colonized to seek power through empire rather than against it, thereby repressing its inherent inequalities. She considers, among others, the interplays of Napoleon and Hasan al-'Attar; Rifa'a al-Tahtawi, Silvestre de Sacy, and Joseph Agoub; Cromer, 'Ali Mubarak, Muhammad al-Siba'i, and Thomas Carlyle; Ibrahim 'Abd al-Qadir al-Mazini, Muhammad Husayn Haykal, and Ahmad Hasan al-Zayyat; and Salama Musa, G. Elliot Smith, Naguib Mahfouz, and Lawrence Durrell. In conversation with new work on translation, comparative literature, imperialism, and nationalism, Tageldin engages postcolonial and poststructuralist theorists from Frantz Fanon, Edward Said, and Gayatri Spivak to Jean Baudrillard, Walter Benjamin, Emile Benveniste, and Jacques Derrida.
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Book Title: Disarming Words : Empire and the Seductions of Translation in Egy
Number of Pages: 368 Pages
Publication Name: Disarming Words : Empire and the Seductions of Translation in Egypt
Language: English
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication Year: 2011
Subject: Comparative Literature, General, Translating & Interpreting, Linguistics / General, Colonialism & Post-Colonialism
Item Height: 0.9 in
Item Weight: 17.6 Oz
Type: Textbook
Author: Shaden M. Tageldin
Subject Area: Literary Criticism, Political Science, Language Arts & Disciplines, History
Item Length: 9 in
Item Width: 6 in
Series: Flashpoints Ser.
Format: Trade Paperback
