Coherence in a Context of Fragmentation: The Missing Letters in Adania Shibli’s Kulluna ba‘id bi-dhat al-miqdar ‘an al-hubb and We are All Equally Far from Love
As Adania Shibli’s second Arabic novel is rendered into English, edits and the removal of six love letters at the author’s request see the work become as much of a translation as an “amplification.” The work’s project of re-imagining the nature of fragments is continued in English, harnessing the po...
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| Опубликовано в: : | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/ces, |
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| Формат: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Язык: | Anglais |
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Commonwealth Essays and Studies
2021
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| Online-ссылка: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Итог: | As Adania Shibli’s second Arabic novel is rendered into English, edits and the removal of six love letters at the author’s request see the work become as much of a translation as an “amplification.” The work’s project of re-imagining the nature of fragments is continued in English, harnessing the politics of moving between languages to deepen critique and ultimately using uneven cultural terrain to re-claim national space. |
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