1st Edition

Bourdieu in Translation Studies The Socio-cultural Dynamics of Shakespeare Translation in Egypt

By Sameh Hanna Copyright 2016
232 Pages 13 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

232 Pages 13 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

232 Pages 13 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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... Read more

1. The ‘social turn’ in translation studies, Bourdieu’s sociology and Shakespeare in Arabic 2. Bourdieu’s sociology of cultural production: what is in a translation ‘field’? 3. Genesis of the field of drama translation in Egypt: the first Arabic Hamlet 4. Translators’ agency and new translation products: de-commercialising the ‘Arabic Shakespeare’ 5. Explaining retranslation: the dialectic of ‘ageing’ and ‘distinction’ 6. ‘Breaking the silence of doxa’: iconoclastic translations 7. Towards a methodology for a sociology of translation

Biography

Sameh Hanna is a lecturer in Arabic literature and translation at the University of Leeds. His research interests include sociology of translation and Shakespeare translation into Arabic on which he published a number of peer-reviewed articles and chapters in edited volumes. He also published a new edition of the first Arabic translation of Hamlet, with an introduction.