Islamic State in Translation
eBook - PDF

Islamic State in Translation

Four Atrocities, Multiple Narratives

  1. 224 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Islamic State in Translation

Four Atrocities, Multiple Narratives

About this book

Offering an in-depth, interdisciplinary analysis of Arabic and English language narratives of the Islamic State terrorist group, this book investigates how these narratives changed across national and media boundaries. Utilizing insights and methodologies from translation studies, communication studies and sociology, Islamic State in Translation explores how multimodal narratives of IS and survivors were fragmented, circulated and translated in the context of the terrorist action carried out by Islamic State against the people and culture of Iraq, as well as against other victims around the world.
Closely examining four atrocities, the Speicher massacre, the enslavement of Ezidi women, execution videos and videos of the destruction of Iraqi cultural heritage, Balsam Mustafa explores how the Arabic and English-language narratives of these events were translated, developed, and fragmented. In doing so, she advances a socio-narrative theory and reconsiders translation in the new media environment, within a broader socio-political field of inquiry.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. List of figures
  4. Acknowledgements
  5. Note on text/transliteration and translation
  6. Introduction
  7. 1 Narrative, Fragmentation and Translation
  8. 2 Speicher Massacre: A Fragmented Story
  9. 3 Sabi: Contested Narratives
  10. 4 Executions Videos: Evolving Genre, Coherent Narratives
  11. 5 Destruction of Iraqi Cultural Artefacts: A Devolving Iconoclastic Narrative
  12. Conclusions
  13. Notes
  14. References
  15. Index