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- Rooke, Tetz, 1955
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Travel and translation: The Case of Karin Johnsson
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Ingår i: Borders and the Changing Boundaries of Knowledge. Transactions vol. 22. Eds. Inga Brandell, Marie Carlson and Önver A. Çetrez. - Istanbul : Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul. - 9789197881333 ; , s. 129-144
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This chapter presents a critical reading from a translation studies perspective of five travel books about the Middle East written in the 1930s by the Swedish writer, translator and photographer Karin Johnsson (1889-1968). Her writing represents an example of the link between travel and translation. In her “Oriental adventures” she featured a number of famous love stories and love poems from classical Arabic literature as free translations. Raised in a long Swedish tradition of orientalizing literature, which constitutes the implicit context for her and her readers, she made these translations conform to the established clichés of Arab-Oriental passion and manipulated the texts on many levels. But despite a pervasive colonial perspective and examples of racist discourse, Johnsson’s travel books also show a development in attitude from an initial ridicule of the Arabs as a people to a more empathic approach at the end.
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- Brandell, Inga, et al.
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Introduction
- 2015
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Ingår i: Borders and the Changing Boundaries of Knowledge. - Istanbul : Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul. - 9789197881333
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- Bodin, Helena, 1964-
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"Going ashore in Byzantium". On border crossings in Swedophone travelogues from Mount Athos in the 1950s and 60s
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Ingår i: Borders and the changing boundaries of knowledge. - Stockholm : Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul. - 9789197881333 ; , s. 53-73
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The article explores how Byzantium was represented by Mount Athos, the Orthodox Christian monastic republic, in Swedophone travelogues from the 1950s and 60s, and from which bases of knowledge and values this was done. The issue is addressed from a cultural semiotic perspective, based on Yuri Lotman’s concept of the semiosphere in combination with Itamar Even-Zohar’s method of studying cultural and dynamic polysystems.Mount Athos is a cultural and religious centre of great importance to all of “the Byzantine commonwealth”, i.e. a centre within the Byzantine semiosphere. The travellers crossed or faced political, cultural, linguistic and religious borders, yet some of them failed to notice the epistemological border between the semiospheres. Decisive to how Byzantium was represented by Mount Athos was whether the monastic republic was judged and evaluated according to the norms of the Byzantine or the Western cultural system – that is, whether Mount Athos was regarded as central within the Byzantine semiosphere, or as peripheral within the Western semiosphere.
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