Migrating Texts: Circulating Translations around the Ottoman Mediterranean

Title page
Copyright
Contents
Charts and Maps
Acknowledgements
The Contributors
Note on Translation and Transliteration
Introduction: Translation as Lateral Cosmopolitanism in the Ottoman Universe
Part I. Translation, Territory, Community
1 What was (Really) Translated in the Ottoman Empire? Sleuthing Nineteenth-century Ottoman Translate
2 Translation and the Globalisation of the Novel: Relevance and Limits of a Diffusionist Model
3 On Eastern Cultures: Transregionalism and Multilingualism in Iraq, 1910-38
Part II. Translation  and/as Fiction
4 Gender and Diaspora in Late Ottoman Egypt: The Case of Greek Women Translators
5 Haunting Ottoman Middle-class Sensibility: Ahmet Midhat Efendi’s Gothic
PART III. ‘Classical’ interventions, ‘European’ inflections’: TRANSLATION  AS/AND ADAPTATION
6 Lords or Idols? Translating the Greek Gods into Arabic in Nineteenth-century Egypt
7 Translating World Literature into Arabic and Arabic into World Literature: Sulayman al-Bustani’s a
8 Girlhood Translated? Fénelon’s Traité de l’éducation des filles (1687) as a Text of Egyptian Moder
9 Gulistan: Sublimity and the Colonial Credo of Translatability
Bibliography
Index