By Sameh Hanna
This ebook explores the consequences of Pierre Bourdieu’s sociology of cultural construction for the learn of translation as a socio-cultural task. Bourdieu’s paintings has endured to encourage learn on translation within the previous couple of years, notwithstanding with out a special, large-scale research that assessments the viability of his conceptual instruments and methodological assumptions. With concentrate on the Arabic translations of Shakespeare’s tragedies in Egypt, this booklet deals a close research of the idea of ‘fields of cultural creation’ with the aim of offering a clean point of view at the genesis and improvement of drama translation in Arabic.
The varied instances of the Arabic translations of Hamlet, Macbeth, King Lear and Othello lend themselves to sociological research, end result of the complicated socio-cultural dynamics that conditioned the interpretation judgements made by way of translators, theatre administrators, actors/actresses and publishers. In difficult the mainstream background of Shakespeare translation into Arabic, that's frequently premised at the linguistic proximity among resource and goal texts, this booklet makes an attempt a ‘social heritage’ of the ‘Arabic Shakespeare’ which takes as its foundational assumption the truth that translation is a socially-situated phenomenon that's in basic terms totally preferred in its socio-cultural milieu. via an in depth dialogue of the construction, dissemination and intake of the Arabic translations of Shakespeare’s tragedies, Bourdieu in Translation Studies marks an important contribution to either sociology of translation and the cultural heritage of contemporary Egypt.
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Bourdieu 1998: 132). The point that Bourdieu wants to drive home here is that this reflexive sociology bears its own practical implications. Furthermore, reflexivity in Bourdieu’s sociology is meant to sensitize the social scientist against the tendency, which is inherent in the ‘scholastic vision’, to universalize hypotheses and postulations usually made by positivist and structuralist approaches. It is this reflexivity which injects sociological research with the awareness that whatever we used to regard as universal, such as law, science, ethics, “cannot be dissociated from the scholastic point of view and from the social and economic conditions which make the latter possible” (Bourdieu 1998: 135).
A€significant number of the drama translations produced during the second half of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries were the outcome of ‘re-actualization’. ). Producers of drama translation in Egypt use the Arabic term iqtibās, literally meaning “lighting a piece of wood from fire, hence acquisition or adoption” (Cachia 1990: 37), to refer to the same strategy. Theatrical iqtibās, as Tawfīq al-Hakīm describes it, amounts “almost to semiauthorship” (cited and translated in Cachia 1990: 37).
In the literary field, positions also include forms of grouping of individual producers (salons, writers’ unions, literary clubs, different literary movements), modes of production (private vs. government publishers, paper vs. electronic publishing, paperback vs. hardcover editions, publishing in a prestigious book series for established writers vs. ). : 231; Bourdieu and Wacquant 1992: 97) and in relation to the distribution of forms of capital possessed by their occupants or the power relations between them (Bourdieu 1996: 231).