Migrating texts : circulating translations around the Ottoman Mediterranean / edited by Marilyn Booth.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Booth, Marilyn, editor.

Series:

Edinburgh studies on the Ottoman Empire

Edinburgh Studies on the Ottoman Empire

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature--Translations--History.

Literature.

Literature--Translations.

History.

Translating and interpreting--Mediterranean Region--History.

Translating and interpreting.

Mediterranean Region.

Physical Description:

xii, 355 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2019]

Contents:

Part I Translation, Territory, Community p. 55

1 What was (Really) Translated in the Ottoman Empire? Sleuthing Nineteenth-century Ottoman Translated Literature p. 57 / Johann Strauss

2 Translation and the Globalisation of the Novel: Relevance and Limits of a Diffusionist Model p. 95 / Peter Hill

3 On Eastern Cultures: Transregionalism and Multilingualism in Iraq, 1910-38 p. 122 / Orit Bashkin

Part II Translation And/As Fiction p. 149

4 Gender and Diaspora in Late Ottoman Egypt: The Case of Greek Women Translators p. 151 / Titika Dimitroulia and Alexander Kazamias

5 Haunting Ottoman Middle-class Sensibility: Ahmet Midhat Efendi's Gothic p. 193 / A. Holly Shissler

Part III 'Classical' Interventions, 'European' Inflections: Translation As/And Adaptation p. 211

6 Lords or Idols? Translating the Greek Gods into Arabic in Nineteenth-century Egypt p. 215 / Raphael Cormack

7 Translating World Literature into Arabic and Arabic into World Literature: Sulayman al-Bustani's al-Ilyadha and Ruhi al-Khalidi's Arabic Rendition of Victor Hugo p. 236 / Yaseen Noorani

8 Girlhood Translated? Fénelon's Traité de l'education des filles (1687) as a Text of Egyptian Modernity (1901, 1909) p. 266 / Marilyn Booth

9 Gulistan: Sublimity and the Colonial Credo of Translatability p. 300 / Kamran Rastegar.

Notes:

Includes bibliography (pages 318-343) and index.

ISBN:

1474438997

9781474438995

OCLC:

1057773534