{"product_id":"stranger-fictions-rebecca-c-johnson-9781501753060","title":"Stranger Fictions","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eZaynab\u003c\/i\u003e, first published in 1913, is widely cited as the first Arabic novel, yet the previous eight decades saw hundreds of novels translated into Arabic from English and French. This vast literary corpus influenced generations of Arab writers but has, until now, been considered a curious footnote in the genre's history. Incorporating these works into the history of the Arabic novel, \u003ci\u003eStranger Fictions\u003c\/i\u003e offers a transformative new account of modern Arabic literature, world literature, and the novel.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRebecca C. Johnson rewrites the history of the global circulation of the novel by moving Arabic literature from the margins of comparative literature to its center. Considering the wide range of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century translation practices--including \"bad\" translation, mistranslation, and pseudotranslation--Johnson argues that Arabic translators did far more than copy European works; they authored new versions of them, producing sophisticated theorizations of the genre. These translations and the reading practices they precipitated form the conceptual and practical foundations of Arab literary modernity, necessitating an overhaul of our notions of translation, cultural exchange, and the global.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eExamining nearly a century of translations published in Beirut, Cairo, Malta, Paris, London, and New York, from \u003ci\u003eQiat Rūbinun Kurūz\u003c\/i\u003eī (The story of Robinson Crusoe) in 1835 to pastiched crime stories in early twentieth-century Egyptian magazines, Johnson shows how translators theorized the Arab world not as Europe's periphery but as an alternative center in a globalized network.\u003ci\u003e Stranger Fictions \u003c\/i\u003eaffirms the central place of (mis)translation in both the history of the novel in Arabic and the novel as a transnational form itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Rebecca C. Johnson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1501753061\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781501753060\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Cornell University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/15\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.27lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.81d","brand":"Rebecca C. Johnson","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43983374811391,"sku":"9781501753060","price":50.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_cde77d99-82be-4dc9-be35-7c87e380cec9.jpg?v=1683266265","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/stranger-fictions-rebecca-c-johnson-9781501753060","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}