Kindred voices : a literary history of medieval Anatolia / Michael Pifer

• VerfasserIn: Pifer, Michael 1985-
• Place / Publishing House: New Haven & London : Yale University Press, [2021]
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Classification: 17.71 - Literaturgeschichte
• Physical Description: xii, 302 Seiten; Illustrationen, Karte
• Notes: Works cited: Seite 267-292

"By the mid-thirteenth century, Anatolia had become a region of stunning cultural heterogeneity, home not only to Armenians and Greeks but also to Persians, Turks, Arabs, Mongols, Jews, Syrians, and others. Michael Pifer asks how the Muslim and Christian poets of Anatolia, who were often charismatic religious leaders in their communities, grappled with the multilingual worlds they inhabited, even while attempting to impart resonant forms of religious instruction. By hastening-or, conversely, by resisting-the Islamization of Anatolia, these poets came to compete, implicitly and explicitly, over the confessional affiliations of their multifarious cities. Kindred Voices restores this competition and dialogue to our understanding of the literary landscape, charting the ways its poetic cultures developed from roughly 1250-1340, before the rise of the Ottomans. As Pifer demonstrates, diverse Turkish, Armenian, and Persian poets came to practice a measured hospitality, selectively accommodating some-but hardly all-forms of difference within their compositions and communities. Over three generations, such practices of hospitable composition would gradually reform the literary landscape, drawing its multiple languages and aesthetic systems together upon a shared, fraught terrain"-- Provided by publisher.