DisOrientations by Kristin Dickinson

DisOrientations by Kristin Dickinson

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DisOrientations by Kristin Dickinson

Explores the German-Turkish literary-cultural relationship from 1811 to 1946, focusing on literary translation as a complex mode of cultural, political, and linguistic orientation.

“Drawing on comparative literature, translation studies, German studies, Ottoman and Turkish studies, as well as transnational studies, Dickinson’s astute study on this interdisciplinary subject matter will serve students and scholars of various fields that intersect with the study of Weltliteratur/world literature, translation, European Orientalists, (Ottoman) Turkish literature and literary traditions, and Turkish German studies”

—Berna Gueneli German Studies Review


“The strength of DisOrientations lies in Dickinson’s erudition and linguistic astuteness, the historical extensivity of the research, and the high standard this book sets for Turkish-German studies of any kind, going forward. This is the kind of trenchant, rough-and-tumble literary analysis that goes far beyond the comforts of Eurocentric, theoreticist comparative literature, and its groundbreaking scope is a sight to behold.”

—David J. Gramling, author of The Invention of Monolingualism


“Kristin Dickinson sheds remarkable new light on myriad ways in which thoroughly entangled German and Turkish modernities compel us to rethink world literature, cultural contact, postcolonial theories of Orientalism, ethnic nationalisms, untranslatability, and much more. She effectively wields specific case histories of translation practice to reconceptualize modernity and translation as a cultural form. Her stunning results will speak to scholars in the humanities, social sciences, and history alike.”

—Leslie A. Adelson, author of Cosmic Miniatures and the Future Sense: Alexander Kluge’s 21st-Century Literary Experiments in German Culture and Narrative Form


DisOrientations is well on its way to becoming a classic reference for scholars of literature that change hands, scripts, and tongues.”

—Ambika Athreya Transit: A Journal of Travel, Migration, and Multiculturalism

Kristin Dickinson is Assistant Professor of German Studies at the University of Michigan.

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ISBN 13 9780271089843
ISBN 10 0271089849
Titel DisOrientations
Autor Kristin Dickinson
Serie Max Kade Research Institute
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Bindungsart Hardback
Verlag Pennsylvania State University Press
Erscheinungsjahr 2021-04-19
Seitenanzahl 270
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