Self and Others in the English Translation of Taha Hussein’s Al-Ayyām (The Days): A Posthumanist Perspective
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This paper explores the construction of self and others in the English translation of Taha Hussein's Al-Ayyām (The Days), a trilogy: An Egyptian Childhood, The Stream of Days, and A Passage to France. Adopting a posthumanist approach, the paper closely examines the self and others, focusing on how people with disabilities perceive themselves in relation to the non-disabled, and explores themes of relationships and social interaction. Hence, the key aim of posthumanism is to challenge the negative view of disability. In this way, the study seeks to reread Al-Ayyām from a posthumanist perspective. Additionally, it aims to explore how Hussein echoes the voices of blind people in his autobiography. From an analytical perspective, the present research reveals how Hussein presents the views of blind individuals to enable non-disabled readers to comprehend their beliefs, challenges, lived experiences, and worldviews. The study also finds that the English translation mediates and reperforms Hussein's subjective voice on behalf of Anglophone readers in cross-cultural contexts. The paper emphasizes the potential of uniting humanities methods to offer new insights into the intersection of identity and posthumanist philosophy.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.006 | 0.026 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".