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Author Tageldin, Shaden M., author.

Title Disarming words : empire and the seductions of translation in Egypt / Shaden M. Tageldin.

Publication Info. Berkeley : University of California Press, 2011.

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 348 pages) : illustrations.
English language
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series FlashPoints ; 5
Flashpoints (Berkeley, Calif.) ; 5.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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Subject Translating and interpreting -- Egypt -- History -- 19th century.
Translating and interpreting.
Egypt.
History.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Translating and interpreting -- Egypt -- History -- 20th century.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Postcolonialism -- Egypt.
Postcolonialism.
Comparative literature -- Arabic and English.
Comparative literature.
Comparative literature -- English -- Congresses.
Language and languages in literature.
Language and languages in literature.
Chronological Term 1800 - 1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Conference papers and proceedings.
History.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Other Form: Print version: Tageldin, Shaden M. Disarming words. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2011 9780520265523 (DLC) 2011005499 (OCoLC)702357875
ISBN 9780520950047 (electronic book)
0520950046 (electronic book)
1283278340
9781283278348
9780520265523
0520265521