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Children's Literature in Education

, Volume 45, Issue 4, pp 340–353 | Cite as

Words Apart, Worlds Apart: Peritexts from Islamized Translations of World Classics in Children’s Literature

  • Neslihan Kansu-Yetkiner
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Abstract

This article examines the political polarization between Republicans and Islamists in Turkey as reflected in the peritexts of recent translations of world children’s literature. This is reflected in terms of van Dijk’s notions of an us vs them binarism, where a positive in-group is opposed to a negative out-group representation. In this way, the construction of an anti-Western (and pro-Islamist) ideology can be seen, regardless of the content of the actual literary works themselves.

Keywords

Islamic society engineering Translation Teun A. van Dijk Critical discourse analysis Peritexts 
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Authors and Affiliations

  1. 1.Department of Translation and Interpretationİzmir University of EconomicsBalçovaTurkey

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