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Disarming words [electronic resource] : empire and the seductions of translation in Egypt / Shaden M. Tageldin

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Tageldin, Shaden M.
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Berkeley : University of California Press, c2011.
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xvii, 348 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
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Contents
Note on Translation and Transliteration -- Overture : Cultural Imperialism Revisited: Translation, Seduction, Power -- The Irresistible Lure of Recognition -- The Dismantling I : Al-Attar's Antihistory of the French in Egypt, 1798-1799 -- Suspect Kinships : Al-Tahtawi and the Theory of French-Arabic "Equivalence," 1827-1834 -- Surrogate Seed, World-Tree : Mubarak, al-Sibai, and the Translations of "Islam" in British Egypt, 1882-1912 -- Order, Origin, and the Elusive Sovereign : Post-1919 Nation Formation and the Imperial Urge toward Translatability -- English Lessons : The Illicit Copulations of Egypt at Empire's End -- Coda : History, Affect, and the Problem of the Universal.
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9780520265523 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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