Hilal Erkazanci Durmus
List of John Benjamins publications in which Hilal Erkazanci Durmus is involved.
2025 The role of translation in the travels of ‘mansplaining’: The case of online translation activism in Türkiye Target 37:4, pp. 489–512 | Article
This study discusses ‘mansplaining’ as a traveling neologism, tracing its trajectory across online activist platforms in Türkiye. The study shows that the initial Turkish equivalents that were proposed for ‘mansplaining’ on feminist blogs sparked controversy owing to their emphasis on male… read more
2021 Reframing an author’s image through the style of translation: The case of Latife Tekin’s Swords of Ice Babel 67:6, pp. 683–706 | Article
This paper seeks to explore how the style of translation reframes an author’s changing image. In light of the transformation of Latife Tekin from being considered an author of the poor and dispossessed with whom she identifies to being acknowledged as a translator who channels the marginal world… read more
2014 A habitus-oriented perspective on resistance to language planning through translation: A case study on the Turkish translation of Elif Şafak’s The Bastard of Istanbul Target 26:3, pp. 385–405 | Article
This paper explores some aspects of the socio-biography of the Turkish writer Elif Şafak, who made substantial changes to Baba ve Piç, the Turkish translation of her novel The Bastard of Istanbul. Arguing that Şafak’s habitus has a considerable influence on her style in Baba ve Piç, the paper… read more
2011 Şehnaz Tahir Gürçağlar: The Politics and Poetics of Translation in Turkey, 1923–1960. Babel 57:3, pp. 366–369 | Review