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“Translation as Alienation: Sufi Hermeneutics and Literary Modernism in Bijan Elahi’s Translations,” forthcoming in Modernism/Modernity (2021)
- Author(s):
- Rebecca Ruth Gould (see profile) , Kayvan Tahmasebian (see profile)
- Date:
- 2019
- Group(s):
- Global Literary Theory, Literary theory, Literary Translation, Persian and Persianate Studies
- Subject(s):
- Iranians--Social life and customs, Translating and interpreting, Iranians, Poetry, Poetry--Translating
- Item Type:
- Article
- Tag(s):
- Iranian, Iranian Modernism, poetry translation, Iranian culture, Literary translation, Modernism, Persian, Poetry in translation, Translation of poetry
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/y35x-ah23
- Abstract:
- In the wake of modernism studies’ global turn, this article considers the role of translation in fostering Iranian modernism. Focusing on the poetic translations of Bijan Elahi (1945-2010), one of Iran’s most significant poet-translators, we demonstrate how untranslatability becomes a point of departure for his experimental poetics. Elahi used premodern Sufi hermeneutics to develop his modernist theory of translation, whereby the alien core of the text is recognised at the centre of the original. As he engages the translated text from many angles, Elahi confounds polarities between innovation and imitation, and authorship and translation, that continue to bifurcate translation studies. In contributing to the globalization of modernist studies, this work adds to our understanding of modernism’s entanglement within premodern concepts of creation, as well as to modernism’s recreation of tradition from a non-European periphery.
- Metadata:
- xml
- Published as:
- Journal article
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 2 years ago
- License:
- All Rights Reserved
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