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Book SynopsisThe Routledge Handbook of Persian Literary Translation offers a detailed overview of the field of Persian literature in translation, discusses the development of the field, gives critical expression to research on Persian literature in translation, and brings together cutting-edge theoretical and practical research. The book is divided into the following three parts: (I) Translation of Classical Persian Literature, (II) Translation of Modern Persian Literature, and (III) Persian Literary Translation in Practice.
The chapters of the book are authored by internationally renowned scholars in the field, and the volume is an essential reference for scholars and their advanced students as well as for those researching in related areas and for independent translators of Persian literature.
Trade Review’'Historically translation has played a pivotal role in the circulation and dissemination of Persian literature, yet the processes and practices of translation have never been the subject of such a comprehensive and systematic study. The Routledge Handbook of Persian Literary Translation breaks new ground by bringing together enriching and insightful analyses that illuminate the history and the array of practices that deepen our understanding of Persian literature in translation. The editors, Pouneh Shabani-Jadidi, Michelle Quay, and Patricia J. Higgins,and their contributors, have rendered an extraordinary service to scholars, students, and translators of Persian which will have a lasting impact on the study of Persian, World Literature, and Translation Studies.’’ Nasrin Rahimieh, Howard Baskerville Professor of Humanities, UC Irvine
''For centuries, the practice of translation has contributed to the development and reinvention of Persian as a global language and a source of cultural inspiration in the vast arena of world literature. By focusing on translation as a deeper foray into the study of the circulation of old and new forms and meanings across languages, the Routledge Handbook of Persian Literary Translation fills a major gap in the fields of Persian studies and comparative literature. Among the many studies featured in this accessible book, experienced specialists of the art of translating classical and modern Persian poetry meet the new generation of scholars whose contributions will radically steer the field toward new exciting ways of reading and interpreting the Persian literary heritage of Afghanistan, India, and Iran.'' Domenico Ingenito, Associate Professor of Persian Literature, University of California, Los Angeles
''This edited volume brings together a diverse group of established and emerging practitioners in the field of Persian literary translation. Together, they examine for us not only the challenges, but also the joys experienced by those who translate premodern and modern Persian poetry and prose.'' Dominic Parviz Brookshaw, Associate Professor of Persian Literature, University of Oxford, UK
Table of ContentsAbbreviations
Contributors
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Pouneh Shabani-Jadidi, Patricia J. Higgins and Michelle Quay
PART I: TRANSLATION OF CLASSICAL PERSIAN LITERATURE
1. Barbad's Song
Dick Davis
2. Rumi and Hafez: Reflections on Translation
Geoffrey Squires
3. The Crowded Borderlands of an Iconic ‘Translation’: Material and Immaterial Paratext of FitzGerald’s Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
Christine van Ruymbeke
4. Classical Persian Poetry and World Literature: The Case of Hafez
Alireza Anushiravani
5. Making Sense of Persian Ethics in English: The Case of Jami’s Baharistan
Gregory Maxwell Bruce
6. Challenges of and Strategies for Translating Indo-Persian Poetry: The Case of Bedil (1644-1720)
Hajnalka Kovacs
7. Sa‘di’s Gulistan in British India: A Provocation
Alexander Jabbari
PART II: TRANSLATION OF MODERN PERSIAN LITERATURE
8. The Persian Short Story and its Histories of Translation
Amy Motlagh
9. Translation of Persian Drama into English
Behrooz Mahmoodi-Bakhtiari
10. White Rabbits of Wonderland: Scenes from Translating and Teaching Persian Theatre
Marjan Moosavi
11. Gender and Canonization in Contemporary Persian Short Story Anthologies, 1980 to 2020
Michelle Quay
12. Mirroring the "Orient" in Words: Persian Prose Fiction in Translation in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
Pegah Shahbaz
13. Color’s Fracture: Translating Fugitive Experience in Early Modern Persian Poetry
Jane Mikkelson
14. What Does Translation Mean in the Age of Colonial Modernity?
Aria Fani
PART III: PERSIAN LITERARY TRANSLATION IN PRACTICE
15. Teaching the Practice of Literary Translation: A Personal Perspective
M. R. Ghanoonparvar
16. "This Being Human is a Guest House": Reflections on Coleman Barks' Translations of Jalal al-Din Rumi's Poetry
Ali-Asghar Seyed-Gohrab
17. Use of Translations of Classic Persian Poems in the Study of Persian
Michael Craig Hillmann
18. The Cultural Translatability of Betweenness: Reading the Literature of the Iranian Diaspora
Persis M. Karim
19. A Linguistic Perspective on Persian Literary Translation
Pouneh Shabani-Jadidi
20. Persian Poetry in the Second-World Translation System
Samuel Hodgkin
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