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Chapter 5. From intersection to interculture
Abstract
The present chapter explores some of the pre-Ottoman cultural dynamics in the Middle East that led to the meeting of Turkish, Arabic and Persian as densely intercrossing languages in the formation of the classical Ottoman cultural sphere. It aims to chart the movement of people, knowledge, customs, practices and centers of power across the Middle East in a historical survey that will offer a networked flow of such movements and highlight the place of translation in the process. It roughly covers the period from the 5th century to the 14th century, which is about a hundred years into the start of the Ottoman empire in the region.
The central premise is that the historical flows between the three cultures associated with Arabic, Persian and Turkish led to the classical Ottoman setting of interculture (Paker 2002), whereby Ottoman translators engaged with Persian and Arabic as both source languages and language components of an Ottoman epistemic discourse. It highlights the degree to which cultural input can be influenced by intercultural transfers in several domains such as science, literature, bureaucracy, education and religion.
Abstract
The present chapter explores some of the pre-Ottoman cultural dynamics in the Middle East that led to the meeting of Turkish, Arabic and Persian as densely intercrossing languages in the formation of the classical Ottoman cultural sphere. It aims to chart the movement of people, knowledge, customs, practices and centers of power across the Middle East in a historical survey that will offer a networked flow of such movements and highlight the place of translation in the process. It roughly covers the period from the 5th century to the 14th century, which is about a hundred years into the start of the Ottoman empire in the region.
The central premise is that the historical flows between the three cultures associated with Arabic, Persian and Turkish led to the classical Ottoman setting of interculture (Paker 2002), whereby Ottoman translators engaged with Persian and Arabic as both source languages and language components of an Ottoman epistemic discourse. It highlights the degree to which cultural input can be influenced by intercultural transfers in several domains such as science, literature, bureaucracy, education and religion.
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Foreword vii
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Part 1. Historical flows
- Chapter 1. A naïve inquiry into translation between Aboriginal languages in pre-Invasion Australia 3
- Chapter 2. The circulation of knowledge vs the mobility of translation, or how mobile are translators and translations? 23
- Chapter 3. A transatlantic flow of Spanish and Catalan romans-à-clef 43
- Chapter 4. Recognition versus redistribution? 69
- Chapter 5. From intersection to interculture 87
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Part 2. Current flows
- Chapter 6. Recirculated, recontextualized, reworked 107
- Chapter 7. Nollywood and indigenous language translation flows 129
- Chapter 8. Maryse Condé and the Alternative Nobel Prize of 2018 149
- Chapter 9. The role of literary agents in the international flow of texts 163
- Chapter 10. Flowing to the reception side 183
- Chapter 11. The tidalectics of translation 207
- Chapter 12. Combining translation policy and imagology 225
- Notes on the authors 247
- Index 251
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Foreword vii
-
Part 1. Historical flows
- Chapter 1. A naïve inquiry into translation between Aboriginal languages in pre-Invasion Australia 3
- Chapter 2. The circulation of knowledge vs the mobility of translation, or how mobile are translators and translations? 23
- Chapter 3. A transatlantic flow of Spanish and Catalan romans-à-clef 43
- Chapter 4. Recognition versus redistribution? 69
- Chapter 5. From intersection to interculture 87
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Part 2. Current flows
- Chapter 6. Recirculated, recontextualized, reworked 107
- Chapter 7. Nollywood and indigenous language translation flows 129
- Chapter 8. Maryse Condé and the Alternative Nobel Prize of 2018 149
- Chapter 9. The role of literary agents in the international flow of texts 163
- Chapter 10. Flowing to the reception side 183
- Chapter 11. The tidalectics of translation 207
- Chapter 12. Combining translation policy and imagology 225
- Notes on the authors 247
- Index 251
