Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Preface vii
4. In memoriam Elif Daldeniz Baysan xi
5. Acknowledgements xiii
6. Introduction 1
7. Ottoman conceptions and practices of translation
8. On the poetic practices of a “singularly uninventive people” and the anxiety of imitation 27
9. Exploring Tercüman as a culture-bound concept in Islamic mysticism 53
10. Ahmet Midhat’s Hulâsa-i Hümâyunnâme 73
11. Transition and transformation
12. On the evolution of the interpreting profession in Turkey 89
13. Saved by translation 107
14. The “official” view on translation in Turkey 125
15. Translation, imported western legal frameworks and insights from the Turkish world of patents 145
16. The republican revolutionary turn
17. The Turkish language reform and intralingual translation 165
18. John Dewey’s 1924 report on Turkish education 181
19. Pseudotranslations of pseudo-scientific sex manuals in Turkey 199
20. Censorship of “obscene” literary translations 219
21. Ideological encounters 233
22. An overview of Kurdish literature in Turkish 253
23. The identity metonymics of translated Turkish fiction in English 273
24. Notes on contributors 297
25. Index 303