Transoceanic Orientalism and Embodied Translation in Sayyida Salme/Emily Ruete’s Memoirs

Contenu

Titre

Transoceanic Orientalism and Embodied Translation in Sayyida Salme/Emily Ruete’s Memoirs

Créateur

Oruc, Firat Voir tous les contenus avec cette valeur

Date

2019

Dans

Hawwa Voir tous les contenus avec cette valeur

Résumé

Emily Ruete’s Memoirs of an Arabian Princess was first published, in German, in 1886, on the threshold of the nineteenth-century imperialist “Scramble for Africa.” Ruete’s exilic relationship with both Europe and Africa made her an insider-outsider, well positioned to capture the imperial stage of Enlightenment Orientalism in flux and transmit it across the oceans to a public who would have found the life she describes unimaginable. In relaying the story of how Sayyida Salme became Emily Ruete, the Memoirs employs a mode of translation that is simultaneously linguistic, cultural, religious, and material. In Ruete’s case, translation is an embodied act. As a translator, Salme/Ruete critically and comparatively translates Zanzibar, and by extension the “Orient,” for a Western audience by virtue of her body being able to enter into and to pass through multiple social and cultural spaces.

Sujet

Zanzibar Voir tous les contenus avec cette valeur

Langue

eng

volume

17

numéro

1

pages

1-20

Titre abrégé

Hawwa

doi

10.1163/15692086-12341347

issn

1569-2078, 1569-2086

uri

https://brill.com/view/journals/haww/17/1/article-p1_1.xml

Oruc, Firat, “Transoceanic Orientalism and Embodied Translation in Sayyida Salme/Emily Ruete’s Memoirs”, 2019, bibliographie, consulté le 8 septembre 2024, https://ibadica.org/s/bibliographie/item/2330