RT Article
T1 Palestinian Literature in Hebrew Translation: Between Cultural Appropriation and Resistance Eyad Barghuthy's An Acre-Esque Tale as Case Study
JF Journal of Holy Land and Palestine Studies
VO 22
IS 1
SP 21
OP 45
A1 Fahmawi Watad, Aida
LA English
PB Edinburgh Univ. Press
YR 2023
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1851207694
AB This article focuses on the complex cultural and political dynamics of translation of Palestinian literature into Hebrew, from a Palestinian perspective. I focus specifically on translation of the literature of Palestinian Israeli citizens, and on a recent, unique model of translation praxis developed by the Maktub project, based in the Van Leer Institute of Jerusalem. The model, entailing dialogic and bi-national translation, aims to turn translation into an act of resistance, through which Palestinian presence ‘infiltrates’ Hebrew cultural consciousness. The article analyses the Hebrew translation of the novel Burdaqaneh (translated as ‘An Acre-esque Tale’) by the Palestinian author Eyad Barghuthy. Specifically, the article attempts to shed light on the process of translation, its aims and methods, and their overall cultural and political import.
K1 Acre-esque Tale Maktub Project
K1 Burdaqaneh
K1 Colonial Cultural Appropriation
K1 Eyad Barghuthy
K1 Hebrew Translation
K1 Israel
K1 Palestinian Cultural Resistance
K1 Palestinian Literature
K1 Van Leer Institute
DO 10.3366/hlps.2023.0303