Özet:

The problematic motive which led to this analysis is the lack of a comprehensive descriptive study in the books published in our literary and cultural system of the era in question which focuses on the identities of woman translators and the prefaces/epilogues written for their translated books. The number of woman translators who translated from Western languages into Ottoman Turkish from the Tanzimat to the Second Constitution is six. The names of only four woman translators out of six were revealed directly to the reader on the front cover, namely Azize Hanım, Hâlide Edip, Madam Gülnar, and Zeyneb Sünbül. On the other hand, the woman identities of the other two translators, whose translations were published in the mentioned era, were revealed indirectly to the reader in various implicit ways such as “Mütercimesi: Bir Kadın (The Woman Translator: A Woman)”/“Mütercime-i Merâm (The Woman Translator of Merâm)” ve “Bir Kız (A Girl)”. Thus, in this context, some information will be primarily given about the woman translators of the relevant era and subsequently some quantitative information about the books translated by these translators will be shared. Thereafter, the translated works by these translators will be handled individually in order to be investigated in the context of their prefaces and epilogues, respectively. The symmetrical/asymmetrical relations between source language/source culture/source literature/author and target language/target culture/target literature/translator in the period under discussion will be probed especially in terms of the voice of the translator(s) with an emphasis of social gender. Within this framework, the prefaces and epilogues of the books translated by the afore-mentioned woman translators will be transliterated and also the translation/translator perception of the relevant woman translators will be attempted to be read through the prefaces and epilogues of their translations by considering the socio-cultural structure of the era in question with a social gender focus

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