Migrating Texts - Circulating Translations Around the Ottoman Mediterranean (Paperback)

Fenelon, 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.

General

Imprint:	Edinburgh University Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Edinburgh Studies on the Ottoman Empire
Release date:	February 2021
Editors:	Marilyn Booth
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 26mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Cloth over boards
Pages:	368
ISBN-13:	978-1-4744-3900-8
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 19th century
LSN:	1-4744-3900-4
Barcode:	9781474439008

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