Between the Human and the Foreign: Translating Arabic Drama for the Stage

Autor/in	Albakry, Mohammed
Titel	Between the Human and the Foreign: Translating Arabic Drama for the Stage
Quelle	In: Educational Theory, 64 (2014) 5, S.497-514 (18 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0013-2004
DOI	10.1111/edth.12077
Schlagwörter	Translation; Semitic Languages; Arabs; Theater Arts; Drama; Cultural Differences + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Arabisch; Hebräisch; Arab; Araber; Theaterwissenschaft; Schauspiel; Kultureller Unterschied
Abstract	In this essay, Mohammed Albakry discusses the notion of accommodating cultural differences in translation and the need to respect these differences without compromising or emphasizing them. First, Albakry reflects on translation as an act of interpretation in light of Terence's famous saying "nothing human can be foreign to me." Second, he comments on the place of drama in translation and translation studies in order to contextualize his project--translating a number of critically acclaimed contemporary Egyptian plays. He then reviews and critiques the binary model of foreignization/domestication, drawing on some concrete examples of the cultural challenges of translating Arabic drama for the American stage. Albakry concludes by conceptualizing an alternative translational space of dialogical encounters between the human/familiar and the foreign in translation, and by considering the relevance of the Terentian maxim to the negotiation of maintaining sameness while preserving difference. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10