Translating Khan on singer: Global solvent versus local interpretation

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ÖZEN İ. C., Zeigler S. M.

Pakistan Development Review, cilt.45, sa.2, ss.303-314, 2006 (Scopus) identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 45 Sayı: 2
  • Basım Tarihi: 2006
  • Doi Numarası: 10.30541/v45i2pp.303-314
  • Dergi Adı: Pakistan Development Review
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Scopus
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.303-314
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: Communication, Community, Dialogue, Domination, Economy, Global, Globalisation, Language, Local, Orientalism, Translation
  • Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi Adresli: Hayır

Özet

This work focuses on Peter Singer's book, One World: The Ethics of Globalisation, and a reading of it recently presented by M. Ali Khan. Khan's response to Singer is acutely critical, but ultimately fails to situate Singer's offering in its proper historical context. In this sense, Khan's response is not sufficient. We demonstrate that Singer's offering is permeated by a universalising discourse marked by asymmetric power relations clearly described by Edward Said in Orientalism and, more surprisingly, by Fyodor Dostoyevsky in The Possessed. We illustrate how Singer's narrative and the counter-narrative of Khan represent a continuation of a longer historical disputation between the West and the East.