Prophetic translation : the making of modern Egyptian literature
/ Maya I. Kesrouany
- Edinburgh: Edinburgh Universty Press, 2020
- xi, 250 pages ; 24 cm
- Edinburgh studies in modern Arabic literature .
In this novel and pioneering study, Maya I. Kesrouany explores the move from Qur'anic to secular approaches to literature in early twentieth-century Egyptian literary translations, asking what we can learn from that period and the promise that translation held for the Egyptian writers of fiction at that time-
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Arabic fiction Arabic fiction Egypt History and criticism Arabic fiction Translations into English History and criticism