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Thou Shalt Not Speak My Language (Modern Middle East Literature in Translation Series)
Thou Shalt Not Speak My Language - Modern Middle East Literature in Translation Series
Author: Abdelfattah Kilito
It has been said that the difference between a language and a dialect is that a language is a dialect with an army. Both 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 Arabic in 2002, Abdelfattah Kilito's Thou Shalt Not Sp...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780815631910
ISBN-10: 081563191X
Publication Date: 10/30/2008
Pages: 102
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Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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