Uncoupling Language and Religion : : An Exploration into the Margins of Turkish Literature / / Laurent Mignon.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Academic Studies Press Complete eBook-Package 2021
• VerfasserIn: Mignon, Laurent,
• Place / Publishing House: Boston, MA : : Academic Studies Press, , [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Ottoman and Turkish Studies
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (252 p.)

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

Frontmatter -- 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 Hanım, 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, Namık Kemal, and Orientalism -- 7. Ali Kemal’s Forgotten Adventure in the Desert -- 8. Nâzım Hikmet and the Demystification of the East -- Conclusion: To Do or Not To Do God: On Transgression, Literature, and Religion -- Bibliography -- Index