Thou Shalt not Speak My Language
$48.99
- Hardcover
132 pages
- Release Date
29 September 2008
Summary
It has been said that the difference between a language and a dialect is that a language is a dialect with an army. Both the act of translation and bilingualism are steeped in a tension between surrender and conquest, yielding conscious and unconscious effects on language. First published in Arabic in 2002, ““Abdelfattah Kilito’s Thou Shalt Not Speak My Language”” explores the tension between dynamics of literary influence and canon formation within the Arabic literary tradition. As one of th…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780815631910 |
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| ISBN-10: | 081563191X |
| Author: | Abdelfattah Kilito, Waïl S. Hassan |
| Publisher: | Syracuse University Press |
| Imprint: | Syracuse University Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 132 |
| Release Date: | 29 September 2008 |
| Weight: | 295g |
| Dimensions: | 216mm x 140mm x 15mm |
| Series: | Middle East Literature in Translation |
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Its availability to Anglophone scholars of Arabic literature, as well as students of comparative literature and literary theory, [is] an invaluable service to the literary profession.” - Terry DeYoung, author of Placing the Poet: Badr Shakir al-Sayyab and Postcolonial Iraq
About The Author
Abdelfattah Kilito
Abdelfattah Kilito, professor in the Department of French at Muhammad V University in Rabat, Morocco, has published extensively on Arabic literature. His book The Author and His Doubles was also published by Syracuse University Press.Wail S. Hassan is associate professor of comparative literature at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of Tayed Salih: Ideology and the Craft of Fiction, also published by Syracuse University Press.
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