Relay translation and South–South imaginary: the case of Muhammad Iqbal in China.
This article examines the translation and reception of the poetry of Muhammad Iqbal—a Muslim revivalist and national poet of Pakistan in China during the late 1950s era of decolonization, as part of a broader imaginary of Chinese-Pakistani solidarity in the Global South. The 1950s have seen a burst...
| Publicado en: | Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Vol. 24; no. 5; pp. 862 - 879 |
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