Bourdieu in Translation Studies

The Socio-Cultural Dynamics of Shakespeare Translation in Egypt

Bibliographic Data

ID19926883
AuthorsSameh Hanna (0000-0001-5763-1784, corresponding author)
Year2016
Pages220
Publication date2016-03-17
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueBourdieu in Translation Studies (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.4324/9781315753591
OpenAlexW3022794814
Open LibraryOL36215826M
ISBN9781315753591
LanguageEN
Citations received20

This book explores the implications of Pierre Bourdieu’s sociology of cultural production for the study of translation as a socio-cultural activity. Bourdieu’s work has continued to inspire research on translation in the last few years, though without a detailed, large-scale investigation that tests the viability of his conceptual tools and methodological assumptions. With focus on the Arabic translations of Shakespeare’s tragedies in Egypt, this book offers a detailed analysis of the theory of ‘fields of cultural production’ with the purpose of providing a fresh perspective on the genesis and development of drama translation in Arabic. The different cases of the Arabic translations of Hamlet, Macbeth, King Lear and Othello lend themselves to sociological analysis, due to the complex socio-cultural dynamics that conditioned the translation decisions made by translators, theatre directors, actors/actresses and publishers. In challenging the mainstream history of Shakespeare translation into Arabic, which is mainly premised on the linguistic proximity between source and target texts, this book attempts a ‘social history’ of the ‘Arabic Shakespeare’ which takes as its foundational assumption the fact that translation is a socially-situated phenomenon that is only fully appreciated in its socio-cultural milieu. Through a detailed discussion of the production, dissemination and consumption of the Arabic translations of Shakespeare’s tragedies, Bourdieu in Translation Studies marks a significant contribution to both sociology of translation and the cultural history of modern Egypt

Biology · Linguistics · Sociology · Translation (biology) · Computer Science · Philosophy · Social and Cultural Dynamics · 1564-1616 · civilization · Criticism and interpretation · Culture · Drama · Egypt · English drama · English influences · English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh · History · History and criticism · Literature and society · Shakespeare, william, criticism and interpretation · Shakespeare, william, translations · Social life and customs · Translating and interpreting · Translations into Arabic

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