Tracing the Image of Turks in Travel Writing through Translation
Journal: Litera:dil,edebiyat ve kültür araştırmaları dergisi
Year: 2022

The main aim of this study is to examine how the images of Turks were depicted in the travel writing A Journey through the Crimea to Constantinople, written by the English traveler Elizabeth Craven, and to trace their repatriation into Turkish through translation entitled 1786’da Türkiye (Turkey in 1786) by the translator Reşat Ekrem Koçu. This study benefits from an imagological perspective in its methodology and applies a comparative textual analysis, which puts a particular emphasis on the ab