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Disarming words: empire and the seductions of translation in Egypt

Shaden M Tageldin
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  • Contents

  • Frontmatter
  • List of Illustrations (page ix)
  • Acknowledgments (page xi)
  • Note on Translation and Transliteration (page xvii)
  • Overture | Cultural Imperialism Revisited: Translation, Seduction, Power (page 1)
  • 1. The Irresistible Lure of Recognition (page 33)
  • 2. The Dismantling I: Al-'Aṭṭār's Antihistory of the French in Egypt, 1798-1799 (page 66)
  • 3. Suspect Kinships: Al-Ṭahṭāwī and the Theory of French-Arabic "Equivalence," 1827-1834 (page 108)
  • 4. Surrogate Seed, World-Tree: Mubārak, al-Sibā'ī, and the Translation of "Islam" in British Egypt, 1882-1912 (page 152)
  • 5. Order, Origin, and the Elusive Sovereign: Post-1919 Nation Formation and the Imperial Urge toward Translatability (page 195)
  • 6. English Lessons: The Illicit Copulations of Egypt at Empire's End (page 237)
  • Coda | History, Affect, and the Problem of the Universal (page 273)
  • Notes (page 289)
  • Index (page 331)
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Published: c2011
Publisher: University of California Press
ISBN(s)
  • 9780520950047 (ebook)
  • 9780520265523 (paper)
Subject
  • Literature
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