Disarming Words: Empire and the Seductions of Translation in Egypt Volume 5

(Part of the FlashPoints Series)

by Shaden M. Tageldin

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In a book that radically challenges conventional understandings of the dynamics of cultural imperialism, Shaden M. Tageldin unravels the complex relationship between translation and seduction in the colonial context. She examines the afterlives of two occupations of Egypt-by the French in 1798 and by the British in 1882-in a rich comparative analysis of acts, fictions, and theories that translated the European into the Egyptian, the Arab, or the Muslim...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0520265521

ISBN13:9780520265523

Release Date:June 2011

Publisher:University of California Press

Length:368 Pages

Weight:1.10 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"

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