M. Alshammari

Negotiating Alterity in Translation: Mapping the Cultural Grid in Al-Manfaluti’s Majdolin and Lin Shu’s Zei Shi

This paper redefines the translation of cultures as an interpretive and ethical endeavor shaped by historical and ideological influences. It relies on Ricoeur's hermeneutics and Bassnett's cultural analysis to create the cultural grid, which is the set of overlapping pressures and permissions that translators use to de...