Charles Sabatos

List of John Benjamins publications in which Charles Sabatos is involved.

Articles

Sabatos, Charles 2015 The Ottoman Captivity Narrative as a Transnational Genre in Central European Literature Archív Orientální 83:2, pp. 233–254 | Article

Among the earliest Western representations of the Muslim world were those written by Central European authors who had survived captivity in the Ottoman Empire; they form a largely unexplored genre of “Ottoman captivity narratives.” While strongly related in both theme and style to the better-known… read more

Sabatos, Charles 2011 Shifting contexts: The boundaries of Milan Kundera’s Central Europe Contexts, Subtexts and Pretexts: Literary translation in Eastern Europe and Russia, Baer, Brian James (ed.), pp. 19–32 | Article

Milan Kundera’s 1984 essay “The Tragedy of Central Europe” attempted to redraw the Cold War boundaries of Europe, arguing that the “small nations” of Central Europe were historically western, but had been “kidnapped” into an alien eastern culture. Originally written in French as “A Kidnapped West,”… read more