Interaction of translatorial and authorial identities of Tomris Uyar

Contrary to the general assumption which puts translated texts in a "secondary" position compared to original texts, author-translator Tomris Uyar stated that she intended her translations to integrate with her short stories and her short stories to integrate with her translations. This study, which is triggered by this point of view, aims to see whether Uyar's translations integrate with her short stories and vice versa, and, thus, to put forward the interactions between Uyar's authorial and translatorial identities. For this purpose, in the first chapter of the study, regarding the place of translation in culture shaping and culture planning, the interactions between translatorial and authorial identities during three different periods of Turkish literature have been investigated in light of the researches by Itamar Even-Zohar and Gideon Toury. In the second chapter, Tomris Uyar's "authorial" and "translatorial" identities have been analyzed, and a variety of interactions between these two identities have been discussed. In the course of this analysis –which has been based on the views she wrote in her diaries and stated in interviews– translation processes and translation decisions adopted by Uyar have been examined within the context of Gideon Toury's translation norms. It has been observed that the initial norm was "adequate" translation for Uyar and that she did different forms of translations such as "collaborative/joint translation" and "indirect translation", both of which can be assessed within the context of preliminary norms. In the third chapter, Uyar's translations of four short stories by American short story writer Flannery O'Connor have been analyzed by comparing target and source texts with regard to her use of the target language. Following this analysis, four short stories of Uyar's which coincide with the period she translated O'Connor's stories have been reviewed in order to see whether she adopted similar uses of language in her own short stories as well. It has been discovered that Uyar adopted similar uses of Turkish language in both her translations and her short stories.