A translation into arabic of Ronald Sutherland's second image: comparative studies in Québec/Canadian literature with an introduction to the text comprising linguistic and cultural parallels and differences between Canada and the Arab world that bear directly on this translation

• Main Author: Chahal, Badaoui
• Other Authors: Jones, D.G.
• Language: English
• Published: Université de Sherbrooke 1987
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11143/10084

My dissertation aims at contributing in an immediately practical fashion to a trans-cultural dialogue and broader understanding between Canada and the Arab world. The trans-lation of Ronald Sutherland's Second Image: Comparative Studies in Quebec/Canadian Literature will fan an already lively interest in Canadian and Australian literatures, as well as the literature produced by the third world coun-tries, in Lebanon and other countries of the Arab world. There are parallels in the political and cultural tensions in Canada and in Lebanon, which are reflected in the litera-tures of the two countries, parallels which Sutherland's book should bring to the mind of the Arabic-speaking reader. Indeed, even the local controversies aroused by Sutherland's study are certain to suggest to the knowledgeable reader of Arabic literature controversies of a similar nature in the literary milieu of Lebanon and the Arab world more general-ly. There is no question that Second Image can contribute to a fuller understanding of the Canadian literatures among Arabic readers, but chances are it will do more: it will generate a shock of recognition in minds that had not antic-ipated it, thereby contributing in some degree to interna-tional understanding. Secondarily, the exercise of trans-lating Second Image illuminates some of the problems of comparative literature and translation.