Migrating Texts

Explores translation in the context of the multi-lingual, multi-ethnic late-Ottoman Mediterranean world. Fénelon, Offenbach and the Iliad in Arabic, Robinson Crusoe in Turkish, the Bible in Greek-alphabet Turkish, excoriated French novels circulating through the Ottoman Empire in Greek, Arabic an...

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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-390252025-07-31T18:06:54Z Migrating Texts Booth, Marilyn History Translation adaptation Islam untranslatability world literature cosmopolitan conceptual history postcolonial gender thema EDItEUR::1 Place qualifiers::1F Asia::1FB Middle East Explores translation in the context of the multi-lingual, multi-ethnic late-Ottoman Mediterranean world. Fénelon, Offenbach and the Iliad in Arabic, Robinson Crusoe in Turkish, the Bible in Greek-alphabet Turkish, excoriated French novels circulating through the Ottoman Empire in Greek, Arabic and Turkish: literary translation at the eastern end of the Mediterranean offered worldly vistas and new, hybrid genres to emerging literate audiences in the nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. Whether to propagate ‘national’ language reform, circulate the Bible, help audiences understand European opera, argue for girls’ education, institute pan-Islamic conversations, introduce political concepts, share the Persian Gulistan with Anglophone readers in Bengal, or provide racy fiction to schooled adolescents in Cairo and Istanbul, translation was an essential tool. But as these essays show, translators were inventors, and their efforts might yield surprising results. 2021-02-10T12:58:18Z 2019-06-25 23:55 2020-03-24 03:00:27 2020-04-01T10:17:16Z 2019-04-30 book 1005105 OCN: 1126190733 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/24997 9781474439015;9781474439022 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/39025 eng open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg n/a n/a n/a https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/24997/1/1005105.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/24997/1/1005105.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/24997/1/1005105.pdf Edinburgh University Press 208d7ab7-a2e4-4c7f-83b1-53dfb4ba4a35 Knowledge Unlatched b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9781474439015;9781474439022 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) KU Select 2018: HSS Frontlist Books 102447 KU Select 2018: HSS Frontlist Books open access
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Migrating Texts
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Translation
adaptation
Islam
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conceptual history
postcolonial
gender
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gender
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