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Americanization of Rumi: The Impact of Coleman Barks's Appropriative Translations

A scholarly journal article analyzing how Coleman Barks's free-verse adaptations reshaped Rumi for an American audience and detached the poetry from its sources.

Author: F. Betul Cihan-Artun
Type: Journal
Written: 2023
Edition: 2023
Publisher: University of Arizona (Arizona Quarterly), via Johns Hopkins University Press / Project MUSE
Language: English
Tradition: Sufism

Where to find it

Project MUSE — Americanization of Rumi (Arizona Quarterly 79.4, 2023)
Academia.edu — author-uploaded PDF of the article