Research Article

Memed, My Hawk, Mèmed Le Mince and İnce Memed as metonymies and rewritings

Number: 31 December 21, 2022
  • Ahu Selin Erkul Yağcı *
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Memed, My Hawk, Mèmed Le Mince and İnce Memed as metonymies and rewritings

Abstract

This article aims to comparatively analyze the first translations of Yaşar Kemal's first novel, İnce Memed (1955), into English and French, and examine the role of these translations in establishing the author's international reputation. Mehmed my Hawk (1961), translated into English by Edouard Roditi, and Mèmed le Mince (1961), translated into French by Güzin Dino, were published in the same year and pioneered the way Yaşar Kemal was known as the world-renowned most important Turkish writer until the end of the 1980s. The comparative analysis of these two translations into English and French using paratextual and textual analyses shows that similar and different strategies are used in the translations. Strategies such as summarizing, omissions and/or additions used and the paratexts presented together with translations moved İnce Memed and Yaşar Kemal beyond being a writer and his first novel, and transformed them into figures that represent metonymically Turkish literature. These two translations have been well-received by critics and readers in the Western world. Reviews of Yaşar Kemal's style and his novel, which they see as a universal epic narrative, played an important role in reshaping the author's reputation in Turkey. Review articles and criticisms that were published abroad were used in Turkey, especially in the paratexts of his novels. In this article, how these first translations of Yaşar Kemal affected the author's position in the source culture and how his identity as the epic narrator, highly influenced by the oral culture, was rewritten through these translations will be investigated.

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Details

Primary Language

English

Subjects

Linguistics

Journal Section

Research Article

Authors

Ahu Selin Erkul Yağcı * This is me
0000-0002-2184-9498
Türkiye

Publication Date

December 21, 2022

Submission Date

October 16, 2022

Acceptance Date

December 20, 2022

Published in Issue

Year 2022 Number: 31

APA
Erkul Yağcı, A. S. (2022). Memed, My Hawk, Mèmed Le Mince and İnce Memed as metonymies and rewritings. RumeliDE Dil Ve Edebiyat Araştırmaları Dergisi, 31, 1699-1708. https://doi.org/10.29000/rumelide.1222103
AMA
1.Erkul Yağcı AS. Memed, My Hawk, Mèmed Le Mince and İnce Memed as metonymies and rewritings. RumeliDE. 2022;(31):1699-1708. doi:10.29000/rumelide.1222103
Chicago
Erkul Yağcı, Ahu Selin. 2022. “Memed, My Hawk, Mèmed Le Mince and İnce Memed As Metonymies and Rewritings”. RumeliDE Dil Ve Edebiyat Araştırmaları Dergisi, nos. 31: 1699-1708. https://doi.org/10.29000/rumelide.1222103.
EndNote
Erkul Yağcı AS (December 1, 2022) Memed, My Hawk, Mèmed Le Mince and İnce Memed as metonymies and rewritings. RumeliDE Dil ve Edebiyat Araştırmaları Dergisi 31 1699–1708.
IEEE
[1]A. S. Erkul Yağcı, “Memed, My Hawk, Mèmed Le Mince and İnce Memed as metonymies and rewritings”, RumeliDE, no. 31, pp. 1699–1708, Dec. 2022, doi: 10.29000/rumelide.1222103.
ISNAD
Erkul Yağcı, Ahu Selin. “Memed, My Hawk, Mèmed Le Mince and İnce Memed As Metonymies and Rewritings”. RumeliDE Dil ve Edebiyat Araştırmaları Dergisi. 31 (December 1, 2022): 1699-1708. https://doi.org/10.29000/rumelide.1222103.
JAMA
1.Erkul Yağcı AS. Memed, My Hawk, Mèmed Le Mince and İnce Memed as metonymies and rewritings. RumeliDE. 2022;:1699–1708.
MLA
Erkul Yağcı, Ahu Selin. “Memed, My Hawk, Mèmed Le Mince and İnce Memed As Metonymies and Rewritings”. RumeliDE Dil Ve Edebiyat Araştırmaları Dergisi, no. 31, Dec. 2022, pp. 1699-08, doi:10.29000/rumelide.1222103.
Vancouver
1.Ahu Selin Erkul Yağcı. Memed, My Hawk, Mèmed Le Mince and İnce Memed as metonymies and rewritings. RumeliDE. 2022 Dec. 1;(31):1699-708. doi:10.29000/rumelide.1222103

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