The hidden violence of retranslation: Mahfouz’s<i>Awlād Ḥāratinā</i>in English

Khalifa, Abdel-Wahab

doi:10.1080/13556509.2020.1751472

The Translator

2020

DOI: 10.1080/13556509.2020.1751472

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The hidden violence of retranslation: Mahfouz’sAwlād Ḥāratināin English

Abdel-Wahab Khalifa

Abstract: 0. Th e hi d d e n viole n c e of r e t r a n sl a tio n: M a hfo uz's Awl d r a t i n in E n glis h. ā Ḥ ā ā Tr a n sl a t o r: S t u di e s in I n t e r c ul t u r al Co m m u ni c a tio n 2 6 (2) , p p .

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The retranslator as the propagandist of MOI

Afzali

2024

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Translations are reflections of their historical, social, cultural, and political contexts. Given this, the current study aimed to explore the ways Nicholson (1898) and Arberry (1967) dealt with translating culture-bound terms and Quranic allusions in the translations of Rumi’s mystical poems in Divan-e-Shams-e- Tabrizi into English and then identify the textual relationships between the two. To do so, the comparative model of research and the notion of tertium comparationis was used. The strategies used by (re)translators for translating culture-bound terms and Quranic allusions were first identified and categorized in a selection of twenty poems from Divan-e-Shams-e- Tabrizi. The study’s findings showed strong filial relationships between the two versions, where both had used cultural adaptation and explicitation of cultural-bound terms by using the addition strategy used in their endnotes. However, the dissidence lay in the content of the endnotes, and the way discursive contexts of the (re)translators shaped their translation strategies was discussed.

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The retranslator as the propagandist of MOI

Afzali

2024

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Two translations of Mahfouz’s Awlad Haratina (Children of our Alley): A computational-stylistic analysis

Zaki,

Mohamed

2024

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Comparative studies of different translations for the same source text can be valuable sources of insights relevant to the fluid notion of ‘translation style’. Such studies can employ a wide variety of techniques, including computational analysis which targets specific elements in the text in order to allow for a systematic view of translator style. This study attempts a computational-stylistic analysis of the two English translations of Naguib Mahfouz’s controversial novel Awlad Haratina (literally, Children of our Alley). The aim of the study is two-fold. First, it aims to show how quantifiable computational and distant reading techniques can help identify patterns of stylistic differences between these two translations. Second, it attempts to situate the results of this analysis within the wider social context of the two English translations (Stewart 1981 and Theroux 1996) of one of the most famous modern Arabic novels. The results clearly show patterns of linguistic use specific to each of the two translations highlighting differences in lexical variety and richness, sentence structure, readability level, stylometric analysis as well some lexical choices. These results can be interpreted within the social context of producing those two translations, with particular reference to characteristics of retranslation as discussed in the literature.

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The hidden violence of retranslation: Mahfouz’sAwlād Ḥāratināin English

Abstract: 0. Th e hi d d e n viole n c e of r e t r a n sl a tio n: M a hfo uz's Awl d r a t i n in E n glis h. ā Ḥ ā ā Tr a n sl a t o r: S t u di e s in I n t e r c ul t u r al Co m m u ni c a tio n 2 6 (2) , p p .

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The retranslator as the propagandist of MOI

The retranslator as the propagandist of MOI

Two translations of Mahfouz’s Awlad Haratina (Children of our Alley): A computational-stylistic analysis

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