Carving out a niche in the Anglosphere: the arduous translation journey of Sabahattin Ali's Madonna in a Fur Coat into English.
This article presents the case of Madonna in a Fur Coat (2016), the English translation of Sabahattin Ali's novel Kürk Mantolu Madonna (1943). It first examines the factors that contributed to the book's revival in Türkiye. Then, the focus shifts to how the translation of the book was presented to t...
| Publicado en: | Middle Eastern Literatures Vol. 28; no. 2; pp. 129 - 150 |
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| Formato: | Literary Criticism |
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Aug2026
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