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The act of translation and bilingualism are steeped in a tension between surrender and conquest, yielding conscious and unconscious effects on language. First published in 2002, Abdelfattah Kilito's Thou Shall Not Speak My Language explores this tension in his address of the dynamics of literary influence and canon formation within the Arabic literary tradition.

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    A Paperback by Abdelfattah Kilito, Wail Hassan

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      Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
      Publication Date: 7/30/2017 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780815635604, 978-0815635604
      ISBN10: 0815635605
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      Book Synopsis
      The act of translation and bilingualism are steeped in a tension between surrender and conquest, yielding conscious and unconscious effects on language. First published in 2002, Abdelfattah Kilito's Thou Shall Not Speak My Language explores this tension in his address of the dynamics of literary influence and canon formation within the Arabic literary tradition.

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