Tradition,Tension and Translation in Turkey

Abstract

1. Preface 2. In memoriam Elif Daldeniz Baysan (by Diriker, Ebru) 3. Acknowledgements 4. Introduction (by Paker, Saliha) 5. Ottoman conceptions and practices of translation 6. On the poetic practices of a singularly uninventive people and the anxiety of imitation: A critical re-appraisal in terms of translation, creative mediation and originality (by Paker, Saliha) 7. Exploring Tercuman as a culture-bound concept in Islamic mysticism (by Akbatur, Arzu) 8. Ahmet Midhat's Hulasa-i Humayunname: A curious case of politics of translation, renewal, imperial patronage and censorship (by Toska, Zehra) 9. Transition and transformation 10. On the evolution of the interpreting profession in Turkey: From the dragomans to the 21st century (by Diriker, Ebru) 11. Saved by translation: German academic culture in Turkish exile (by Seyhan, Azade) 12. The official view on translation in Turkey: The case of national publishing congresses (1939-2009) (by Tahir Gurcaglar, Sehnaz) 13. Translation, imported western legal frameworks and insights from the Turkish world of patents (by Baysan, Elif Daldeniz) 14. The republican revolutionary turn: Ideology and politics 15. The Turkish language reform and intralingual translation (by Berk Albachten, Ozlem) 16. John Dewey's 1924 report on Turkish education: Progressive education translated out of existence (by Alptekin, Yasemin) 17. Pseudotranslations of pseudo-scientific sex manuals in Turkey (by Kocak, Muge Isiklar) 18. Censorship of obscene literary translations: An analysis of two specific cases (by Ustunsoz, Irem) 19. Ideological encounters: Islamist retranslations of western classics (by Baydan, Esra Birkan) 20. An overview of Kurdish literature in Turkish (by Ergul, Selim Temo) 21. The identity metonymics of translated Turkish fiction in English: The cases of Bilge Karasu and Orhan Pamuk (by Eker Roditakis, Arzu) 22. Notes on contributors 23. Index