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Depicting the Late Ottoman Empire in Turkish Autobiographies - Images of a Past World (Paperback)
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Depicting the Late Ottoman Empire in Turkish Autobiographies - Images of a Past World (Paperback)
Series: Life Narratives of the Ottoman Realm: Individual and Empire in the Near East
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The period between the 1880s and the 1920s was a time of momentous
changes in the Ottoman Empire. It was also an age of literary
experiments, of which autobiography forms a part. This book
analyses Turkish autobiographical narratives describing the part of
their authors' lives that was spent while the Ottoman Empire still
existed. The texts studied in this book were written in the
cultural context of the Turkish Republic, which went to great
lengths to disassociate itself from the empire and its legacy. This
process has only been criticised and partially reversed in very
recent times, the resurging interest in autobiographical texts
dealing with the "old days" by the Turkish reading public being
part of a wider, renewed regard for Ottoman legacies. Among the
analysed texts are autobiographies by writers, journalists,
soldiers and politicians, including classics like Halide Edip
Adivar and Sevket Sureyya Aydemir, but also texts by authors
virtually unknown to Western readers, such as Ahmed Emin Yalman.
While the official Turkish republican discourse went towards a
dismissal of the imperial past, autobiographical narratives offer a
more balanced picture. From the earliest memories and personal
origins of the authors, to the conflict and violence that
overshadowed private lives in the last years of the Ottoman Empire,
this book aims at showing examples of how the authors painted what
one of them called "images of a past world."
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