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Stranger fictions : a history of the novel in Arabic translation
- Title
- Stranger fictions : a history of the novel in Arabic translation / Rebecca C. Johnson.
- Author
- Johnson, Rebecca C. (Rebecca Carol)
- Publication
- Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press, 2020.
- ©2020
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Details
- Description
- xiii, 270 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- "This book argues that the circulation of European novels and European-style fiction in the nineteenth century Arabic world, and the multiple translation practices that enabled it, are central to the development of the Arabic novel"--
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: a history of the novel in mistranslation -- Crusoe's Babel, missionaries' mistakes: translated origins -- Stranger publics: the structural translation of the print sphere -- Errant readers: the serialized novel's modern subject -- Fictions of connectivity: the literary economy of Monte Cristo -- Age of the comparative world picture: Jules Verne's colonial worlds -- The melodramatic state: popular translation and the erring nation -- Conclusion: invader fictions: national literature after translation.
- Call Number
- JFE 21-748
- ISBN
- 9781501753060
- 1501753061
- 9781501753077 (canceled/invalid)
- 9781501753305 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2020013041
- OCLC
- 1147933363
- Author
- Johnson, Rebecca C. (Rebecca Carol), author.
- Title
- Stranger fictions : a history of the novel in Arabic translation / Rebecca C. Johnson.
- Publisher
- Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press, 2020.
- Copyright Date
- ©2020
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Chronological Term
- Since 1801
- Other Form:
- Online version: Johnson, Rebecca C. (Rebecca Carol), Stranger fictions. Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2020 9781501753077 (DLC) 2020013042
- Research Call Number
- JFE 21-748