REPRESENTATION OF THE MIDDLE EAST IN THE SLOVENIAN TRANSLATIONS OF KARL MAY'S ORIENTZYKLUS.

The present article addresses how the Middle East was portrayed in two Slovenian translations of Karl May's Orientzyklus. This series of novels was translated during the interwar period, when the Slovenian ethnic territory was part of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, and the re-translations were published during Slovenia's socialist era. By means of a textual comparison, the extent of the ideological interventions that occurred in the portrayal of the Middle East in the translations is established. Furthermore, the article discusses how the different contemporary socio-political circumstances in Slovenia may have influenced how the region in question was represented. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]