The Routledge Handbook of Persian Literary Translation

Pouneh Shabani-Jadidi is Instructional Professor of Persian in the Department of Near Eastern Language and Civilizations at the University of Chicago, USA. She holds a Ph.D. in linguistics from the University of Ottawa, Canada (2012) as well as a Ph.D. in applied linguistics with a focus on translation from Tehran Azad University, Iran (2004). She has published on a variety of topics including translation, linguistics, and second language acquisition. In addition, she has translated several books from Persian to English. She is the editor of The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition and Pedagogy of Persian and co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Persian Linguistics. Patricia J. Higgins is University Distinguished Service Professor Emerita at SUNY Plattsburgh, USA. She received a Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley in 1974. Besides an eighteen-month ethnographic study of education and socialization in Tehran, she spent ten months as a Fulbright Lecturer at the University of Tehran, Iran. She is co-translator, with Pouneh Shabani-Jadidi, of Hafez in Love: A Novel by Iraj Pezeshkzad. At SUNY Plattsburgh, she served as a faculty member, an associate vice president, and then interim provost and vice president for academic affairs. Michelle Quay is Visiting Lecturer of Persian at Brown University, USA. She has taught Persian language and literature at the University of Chicago, USA, Columbia University, USA, and the University of Cambridge, UK. As a Gates Cambridge Scholar, she undertook research for her dissertation on depictions of gender in premodern Persian literature, particularly in the writings of Farid al-Din Attar and other early Sufi mystics. She was awarded her doctorate from Pembroke College, University of Cambridge, in 2018.

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Introduction

Pouneh Shabani-Jadidi, Patricia J. Higgins and Michelle Quay

PART I: TRANSLATION OF CLASSICAL PERSIAN LITERATURE

1. Barbad's Song

Dick Davis

2. Rumi and Hafez: Reflections on Translation

Geoffrey Squires

3. The Crowded Borderlands of an Iconic ‘Translation’: Material and Immaterial Paratext of FitzGerald’s Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

Christine van Ruymbeke

4. Classical Persian Poetry and World Literature: The Case of Hafez

Alireza Anushiravani

5. Making Sense of Persian Ethics in English: The Case of Jami’s Baharistan

Gregory Maxwell Bruce

6. Challenges of and Strategies for Translating Indo-Persian Poetry: The Case of Bedil (1644-1720)

Hajnalka Kovacs

7. Sa‘di’s Gulistan in British India: A Provocation

Alexander Jabbari

PART II: TRANSLATION OF MODERN PERSIAN LITERATURE

8. The Persian Short Story and its Histories of Translation

Amy Motlagh

9. Translation of Persian Drama into English

Behrooz Mahmoodi-Bakhtiari

10. White Rabbits of Wonderland: Scenes from Translating and Teaching Persian Theatre

Marjan Moosavi

11. Gender and Canonization in Contemporary Persian Short Story Anthologies, 1980 to 2020

Michelle Quay

12. Mirroring the "Orient" in Words: Persian Prose Fiction in Translation in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

Pegah Shahbaz

13. Color’s Fracture: Translating Fugitive Experience in Early Modern Persian Poetry

Jane Mikkelson

14. What Does Translation Mean in the Age of Colonial Modernity?

Aria Fani

PART III: PERSIAN LITERARY TRANSLATION IN PRACTICE

15. Teaching the Practice of Literary Translation: A Personal Perspective

M. R. Ghanoonparvar

16. "This Being Human is a Guest House": Reflections on Coleman Barks' Translations of Jalal al-Din Rumi's Poetry

Ali-Asghar Seyed-Gohrab

17. Use of Translations of Classic Persian Poems in the Study of Persian

Michael Craig Hillmann

18. The Cultural Translatability of Betweenness: Reading the Literature of the Iranian Diaspora

Persis M. Karim

19. A Linguistic Perspective on Persian Literary Translation

Pouneh Shabani-Jadidi

20. Persian Poetry in the Second-World Translation System

Samuel Hodgkin

Index