ISBN:
9780197512319
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource
,
maps (black and white).
Series Statement:
Oxford scholarship online
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Yavuz, M. Hakan, 1964 - Nostalgia for the empire
DDC:
956.1015
Keywords:
Turkish literature History and criticism
;
Collective memory
;
Nostalgia
;
Group identity
;
Turkey History Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918
;
Historiography
;
Turkey History Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918
;
Historiography
;
Osmanisches Reich
;
Türkei
;
Geschichte
;
Geschichtsschreibung
;
Türkisch
;
Literatur
;
Kollektives Gedächtnis
;
Nostalgie
;
Gruppenidentität
;
Soziale Identität
Abstract:
"This book examines the social and political origins of beleaguered and wistful expressions of nostalgia about the Ottoman Empire for various groups in the region. Rather than focus on how Ottomanism evolved, the book examines how social and political memories of the Ottoman past have been transformed in Turkish society along with reactions from the outside world. This Ottoman past, as remembered now, is grounded in contemporary conservative Islamic values. Thus, the connection between memories of the Ottoman past and these values defines Turkey's new identity. This new expression of memory portrays Turkey as a victim of the major powers, justifying its position against its imagined internal and external enemies. This book explores why Turkish society has selectively brought the Ottoman Empire back into the public mindset and for what purpose. The book traces how memory of the Ottoman period has changed in Turkish literature, mainstream history books and other cultural products from the 1940s to the 21st century. A key aspect of Turkish literature is its criticism of the Jacobin modernization of Turkey matched by its return to the Ottoman past to articulate an alternative political language. This book responds to several interrelated questions: What is neo-Ottomanism, in general, and what is the significance of various terms using Ottoman as a variant and for what purpose do they serve? Who constructed the term and for what purpose? What are the social and political origins of the current nostalgia for the Ottoman past?"--
Note:
Also issued in print: 2020. - Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on July 21, 2020)
DOI:
10.1093/oso/9780197512289.001.0001
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