Nineteenth-century US literature in Middle Eastern languages / Jeffrey Einboden.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Einboden, Jeffrey.

Series:

Edinburgh Studies in Transatlantic Literatures

Edinburgh studies in transatlantic literatures

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--Minority authors.

American literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vii, 232 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Other Title:

Nineteenth-century United States literature in Middle Eastern languages

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In a pioneering approach to classic U.S. Literature, Jeffrey Einboden traces the global afterlives of literary icons from Washington Irving to Walt Whitman and analyses 19th-century American authors as they now appear in Arabic, Hebrew and Persian translation. Crossing linguistic, cultural and national boundaries, Middle Eastern renditions of U.S. texts are interrogated as critical readings and illuminating revisions of their American sources. Why does Moby-Dick both invite and resist Arabic translation? What are the religious and aesthetic implications of re-writing Leaves of Grass in Hebrew? How does rendering The Scarlet Letter into Persian transform Hawthorne's infamous symbol? Uncovering the choices and changes made by prominent Middle Eastern translators, this study is the first to reveal the significance of 'orienting' American classics, demonstrating how such a process offers a valuable lens for reconsidering U.S. literary origins, accenting and amplifying facets of the American Renaissance customarily hidden.

Contents:

pt. 1. Scriptural circulations

pt. 2. Orienting the American romance

pt. 3. 'I too am untranslatable' : Middle Eastern leaves.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-7486-8913-3

0-7486-8309-7

OCLC:

853093665