Description:
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.
Brief description: Kristin Dickinson is Assistant Professor of German Studies at the University of Michigan.
Review Quotes:
"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