{"pk":43094,"title":"Arabic Huck: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in Vernacular Arabic","subtitle":null,"abstract":"This article concentrates on the author’s efforts to produce the first translation of Mark Twain’s 1884 novel \nAdventures of Huckleberry Finn\n into colloquial Arabic,\n \nand\n \nbriefly reviews a few other major translations of Twain’s masterpiece into Modern Standard Arabic and Classical Arabic. The article reflects on this ongoing translation project attempting to present Twain’s book in a vernacular Arabic dialect spoken in Damascus and the countryside surrounding the Syrian capital. It highlights and explains the rationale and inspiration behind this unique translation project as well as the reasons behind the selection and employment of this specific regional Damascene dialect. The article also discusses and exemplifies how all previous Arabic translations of Twain’s novel used Modern Standard Arabic and Classical Arabic and were affected by a motley assortment of cultural, political and religious factors that resulted in abridgement, adaptation, and censorship. These previous translations partially failed to capture the freshness of Huck Finn’s casual voice, childish tone, and cluttered storytelling, along with the perceptiveness and seriousness of Twain’s authorial intention, themes and comedy.","language":"en","license":{"name":"Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives  4.0","short_name":"CC BY-NC-ND 4.0","text":"Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\n\nNonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.\n\nNoDerivatives — If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you may not distribute the modified material.\n\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0"},"keywords":[{"word":"Mark Twain translations in Arabic"},{"word":"vernacular Arabic translation"},{"word":"Arabic translation of Huckleberry Finn"}],"section":"SPECIAL FORUM: Global Huck: Mapping the Cultural Work of Translations of Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/37s8n560","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Hamada","middle_name":"","last_name":"Kassam","name_suffix":"","institution":"","department":"None"}],"date_submitted":"2022-01-01T06:16:08Z","date_accepted":"2022-01-01T06:16:08Z","date_published":"2022-01-01T06:17:55Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/jtas/article/43094/galley/32110/download/"}]}