Katayoon Afzali
List of John Benjamins publications in which Katayoon Afzali is involved.
Articles
2025 The retranslator as the propagandist of MOI: The discursive contexts of the (re-)translation of Rumi’s Divan-e-Shams in the United States Babel 71:1, pp. 1–21 | Article
Translations are reflections of their historical, social, cultural, and political contexts. Given this, the current study aimed to explore the ways Nicholson (1898) and Arberry (1967) dealt with translating culture-bound terms and Quranic allusions in the translations of Rumi’s mystical poems in… read more
2020 Reframing Iran’s discourse of war in the English translation of Iranian war literature: The case of One Woman’s War: Da (Mother) Babel 66:1, pp. 70–95 | Article
Translation as interlingual and intercultural communication has always been subject to ideological manipulation. This is due to the fact that some Translation Studies scholars believe that translators are considered as responsible for the reception and survival of literary works among target… read more