Uncoupling language and religion : an exploration into the margins of Turkish literature
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Uncoupling language and religion : an exploration into the margins of Turkish literature
（Ottoman and Turkish studies）
Academic Studies Press, 2021
- : hbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [189]-208) and index
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Description
This book is an invitation to rethink our understanding of Turkish literature as a tale of two "others." The first part of the book examines the contributions of non-Muslim authors, the "others" of modern Turkey, to the development of Turkish literature during the late Ottoman and early republican period, focusing on the works of largely forgotten authors. The second part discusses Turkey as the "other" of the West and the way authors writing in Turkish challenged orientalist representations. Thus this book prepares the ground for a history of literature which uncouples language and religion and recreates the spaces of dialogue and exchange that have existed in late Ottoman Turkey between members of various ethno-religious communities.
Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
A Note on Conventions
Introduction: In the Footsteps of Baha Tevfik
Part One: Rethinking Literature in Turkish
1. The Revolution of the Letters
2. The Roses of the Anatolian Garden
3. The "Refuse and Ruins" of Literary History
4. Beyond Atala: Vartan Pasha, Zafer Hanim, and the Romantic Rebellion
5. "La lengua ke se avla aki": Jewish Literature in "the Language Spoken Here"
Part Two: Challenging Orientalism
6. Samuel Hirsch, Namik Kemal, and Orientalism
7. Ali Kemal's Forgotten Adventure in the Desert
8. Nazim Hikmet and the Demystification of the East
Conclusion: To Do or Not to Do God: On Transgression, Literature and Religion
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