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Informationen zum Autor Shamma, Tarek Zusammenfassung Translation and the Manipulation of Difference explores the question of difference in translation and offers an extended critique of the advocacy of foreignizing translation as a practice that does not minimize the alterity of the foreign text, and could therefore serve as an antidote to ethnocentrism and cultural insularity Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Colonial Representation and the Uses of Literalism Edward William Lane's Translation of The Arabian Nights 1. The Age of Galland Galland and His Readers 2. Galland Reconsidered 3. Lane and The Arabian Nights The British Colonial Interest in Egypt The Describer of Egypt The Arabian Nights "An epoch in the history of popular Eastern literature" Literal Translation and the Exhibitionary Complex Literalism in Postcolonial Theories 2. The Exotic Dimension of Foreignizing Strategies Richard Francis Burton's Translation of The Arabian Nights 1. A Rebel Manqué The "Pilgrimage" to Mecca 2. Burton the Translator The Arabian Nights Burton and his Readers Contextualizing the Nights "Oriental in tone and colour" "A complete picture of Eastern peoples" 3. Foreignism or Exoticism? 4. Venuti on Burton 3. Domestication as Resistance Wilfrid Scawen Blunt's Translations from Arabic 1. Looking for a Cause In Byron's Footsteps 2. A "Political First Love" The "Rob Roy of the Desert" "Shepard rule" 3. The "scourge of the oppressor" Blunt and the Irish Literary Revival 4. Blunt the Translator A New Rúbaiyat? 5. Translation as a Political Act Conclusion Translation as Adjustment
