This article is a valuable introduction to Arab children's literature, its history, and its cultural context. This is indeed an important resource to anyone in the Western world hoping to learn more about Arab children's literature.
Within the limits of the present paper, I am interested in the genesis of children's literature (i.e. how children's literature arises in society) and also how it affects society by affecting children. Resting on the theoretical premise that children's literature is a social product and a social force, this paper argues that and how we write for our children determines, to a great extent, what and how we translate for them.
Journal
The Looking Glass : New Perspectives on Children's LiteratureISSN
1551-5680Volume
8Issue
2Publisher
La Trobe UniversitySection Title
Alice's AcademyAuthor Biography
Sabeur Mdallel is currently a PhD student at the University of Tampere, Finland. He received an MA in translation studies from the University of Mons, Belgium. He is also an assistant at The University of Manouba, Tunisia, teaching translation and translation studies, and works as a freelance translator. His current research interests include translation studies, contrastive textology (English and Arabic), comparative stylistics, and translating children's literature. His doctoral research is about the strategies of ideological manipulation in translating English children's literature into Arabic.Date Created
2010-03-15Rights Statement
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