Thou Shalt Not Speak My Language (Modern Middle East Literature in Translation Series) by Abdelfattah Kilito, Wail S. Hassan

Thou Shalt Not Speak My Language (Modern Middle East Literature in Translation Series)

Abdelfattah Kilito, Wail S. Hassan

102 pages first pub 2002 (editions)

nonfiction philosophy reflective medium-paced
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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 uncons...

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