TY - BOOK AU - Tahir Gürçağlar,Şehnaz TI - The politics and poetics of translation in Turkey, 1923-1960 T2 - Approaches to translation studies SN - 9789401205306 AV - PL209 .G87 2008eb U1 - 894.3509 22 PY - 2008/// CY - Amsterdam, New York, NY PB - Rodopi KW - Literature KW - Translations into Turkish KW - History and criticism KW - Translating and interpreting KW - Political aspects KW - Turkey N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 313-324) and index; Preliminary Material -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- A Call for an Alternative View of the History of Translation in Turkey -- Planning and De-planning: The System of Culture in Turkey in 1923-1960 -- Aspects of Discourse on Translation -- The Market for Translated Literature -- Literature for the ‘People’ -- Translating on the Margin -- Divergence and Convergence -- Conclusion -- References -- Index; Available to subscribing member institutions only N2 - The present book is a bold attempt at revealing the complex and diversified nature of the field of translated literature in Turkey during a period of radical socio-political change. On the broad level, it investigates the implications of the political transformation experienced in Turkey after the proclamation of the Republic for the cultural and literary fields, including the field of translated literature. On a more specific level, it holds translation under focus and explores the discourse formed on translation and translators while it also traces the norms (not) observed by translators throughout the 1920s-1950s in two case studies. The findings of the study suggest that the concepts of translation both affected and were affected by cultural processes in the society, including ideological and poetological ones and that there was no uniform way of defining or carrying out translations during the period under study. The findings also point at the segmentation of readership in early republican Turkey and conclude that the political and poetological factors governing the production and reception of translations varied for different segments of readers UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789401205306 ER -