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The book introduces the reader to the wealth of narrative sources
on late Ottoman Istanbul's diverse population by drawing on the
voices of its permanent residents and foreign visitors.
Istanbul - Kushta - Constantinople presents twelve studies that
draw on contemporary life narratives that shed light on little
explored aspects of nineteenth-century Ottoman Istanbul. As a broad
category of personal writing that goes beyond the traditional
confines of the autobiography, life narratives range from memoirs,
letters, reports, travelogues and descriptions of daily life in the
city and its different neighborhoods. By focusing on individual
experiences and perspectives, life narratives allow the historian
to transcend rigid political narratives and to recover lost voices,
especially of those underrepresented groups, including women and
members of non-Muslim communities. The studies of this volume focus
on a variety of narratives produced by Muslim and Christian women,
by non-Muslims and Muslims, as well as by natives and outsiders
alike. They dispel European Orientalist stereotypes and cross class
divides and ethnic identities. Travel accounts of outsiders provide
us with valuable observations of daily life in the city that
residents often overlooked.
Research on Middle Eastern press is of great importance for
comparative historical studies. Many editors of newspapers and
magazines were not only journalists, but also writers, poets,
thinkers and politicians. These intellectual leaders used
non-official journals as a means of accelerating public discourse
on reforms in the Ottoman Empire are later on in its successor
states. Introducing new genres of literature to the Middle East
they serialized novels, short stories and travelogues, experimented
with new kinds of poetry and let satire blossom. The 15
contributors approach this thematics from different perspectives:
Some concentrate on certain newspapers, literary journals or
satirical magazines, others centre on the biographies of editors or
writers. Although the main focus of this book is on the Ottoman and
Persian press until 1914, some articles extend this scope to
include Post-Ottoman Iraq, Syria, Turkey and Cyprus.
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