Queer-Feminist Writing from 1970s Turkey: A Conversation with Maureen Freely on Sevgi Soysal, by Ipek Sahinler

Queer-Feminist Writing from 1970s Turkey: A Conversation with Maureen Freely on Sevgi Soysal, by Ipek Sahinler Interviews [email protected] Tue, 08/06/2024 - 16:31 Maureen Freely (left) & Funda Soysal (right)Maureen Freely is an author, translator, and professor of English and comparative literary studies at the University of Warwick. Among her many translations is Dawn, by Sevgi Soysal, which transpires over one night spent in prison. A novel from the 1970s, Archipelago published the first English version, in Freely’s translation, in 2022. In this virtual conversation, Freely shares her ideas about contemporary Turkish politics and literature along with the translation challenges she faced when rendering Dawn into English. Sevgi Soysal’s daughter, Funda Soysal, joins the conversation from Istanbul. Ipek Sahinler: I know that you’ve read Soysal’s Dawn multiple times over the decades and that each reading spoke to you differently. As its translator, how do you read this novel now, from the present moment, especially considering the very dark time Turkey is going through after the February 6 earthquake? Maureen Freely: I was reading it, or parts of it, in preparation for our conversation today, and it brought me back to the despair you can’t help feeling at the composite portrait she paints of Adana at that time. She goes into so many different heads, and there she makes visible the system in which everybody is caught.... Continue reading at 'World Literature Today'

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