Adab Colloquium: Desire and the Diseases of Translation: The Metaphorology of Civilization in ‘Alas, I am Not a European’
January 28, 2022 @ 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
How can notions of civilization and identity help us think about the politics of literature in the Nahda? This paper tackles Khalil al-Khūri’s definition of civilization (tamaddun) as an untranslatable element of the social body whose corruption threatens its own reproduction, and considers the implications of al-Khūri’s understanding of tamaddun for Arab literary and intellectual history.
How can notions of civilization and identity help us think about the politics of literature in the Nahda? This paper tackles Khalil al-Khūri’s definition of civilization (tamaddun) as an untranslatable element of the social body whose corruption threatens its own reproduction, and considers the implications of al-Khūri’s understanding of tamaddun for Arab literary and intellectual history.
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