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The act of translation and bilingualism are steeped in a tension between surrender and conquest, yielding conscious and unconscious effects on language. First published in 2002, Abdelfattah Kilito's Thou Shall Not Speak My Language explores this tension in his address of the dynamics of literary influence and canon formation within the Arabic literary tradition.

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Book category Knihy po anglicky Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Full title: Thou Shalt Not Speak My Language
• Author: Abdelfattah Kilito, Wail Hassan
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 128
• EAN: 9780815635604
• ISBN: 0815635605
• ID: 16331849
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Weight: 170 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 12 mm
• Date of publishing: 30. July 2017

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