Migrating Texts

Marilyn Booth is Khalid bin Abdallah Al Saud Professor for the Study of the Contemporary Arab World, University of Oxford. Her most recent monograph, The Career and Communities of Zaynab Fawwaz: Feminist Thinking in Fin-de-siècle Egypt (2021), is amongst numerous publications on early feminism, translation, and Arabophone women’s writing in Egypt and Ottoman Syria. Initiator of the Ottoman Translation Studies Group, she edited Migrating Texts: Circulating Translations around the Ottoman Mediterranean (Edinburgh University Press, 2019). Translator of eighteen published works of fiction and memoir from the Arabic, she was co-winner of the 2019 Man Booker International Prize for her translation of Jokha Alharthi’s Celestial Bodies.

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• List of charts and mapsNote on Translation and TransliterationAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Translation as Lateral Cosmopolitanism in the Ottoman Universe, Marilyn BoothI. Translation, Territory, Community1. What was (really) translated in the Ottoman Empire? Sleuthing Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Translated Literature, Johann Strauss2. Translation and the Globalisation of the Novel: Relevance and Limits of a Diffusionist Model, Peter Hill; 3. On Eastern Cultures: Trans-Regionalism and Multilingualism in Iraq, 1910-38, Orit BashkinII. Translation and/as Fiction4. Gender and Diaspora in Late Ottoman Egypt: The Case of Greek Women Translators, Titika Dimitroulia and Alexander Kazamias5. Haunting Ottoman Middle-Class Sensibility: Ahmet Midhat Efendi’s Gothic, A. Holly ShisslerIII. ‘Classical’ interventions, ‘European’ inflections: Translation as/and Adaptation5. Lords or Idols? Translating the Greek Gods into Arabic in Nineteenth-Century Egypt, Raphael Cormack6. Translating World Literature into Arabic and Arabic Into World Literature: Sulayman al-Bustani’s al-Ilyadha and Ruhi al-Khalidi’s Arabic Rendition of Victor Hugo, Yaseen Noorani7. Girlhood Translated? Fénelon’s Traité de l’éducation des filles (1687) as a Text of Egyptian Modernity (1901, 1909), Marilyn Booth8. Gulistan: Sublimity and the Colonial Credo of Translatability, Kamran RastegarBibliographyContributorsIndex