Overview
- Shifts historical understanding of neo-Ottoman ideology away from politics
- Analyzes the relationship between mass media and cultural hegemony
- Offers new perspectives on contemporary Turkey and gender
Part of the book series: Modernity, Memory and Identity in South-East Europe (MOMEIDSEE)
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This book presents gendered readings of cultural manifestations that relate to the Ottoman era as a preferred past and a model for the future. By means of claims of authenticity and the distribution of imaginaries of a homogenous desirable alternative to everyday concerns, as well as invoking an imperial past at the national level. In this mode of thinking, shaped around a polarised worldview, Republican ideals serve as a counter-image to the promoted splendour and harmony of the Ottomans. Yet, the stereotypical gender roles inextricably linked with this neo-Ottoman imaginary remain largely unacknowledged, dissimulated in the construction of the desire of an idealised past. Our adaption of a cultural studies perspective in this volume puts special emphasis on agency, gender, and authority. It provides a shared ground for the interrogation, through the contributions comprising this project of knowledge production about the past in light of what constitutes acceptable legitimacy in interpreting not only the canonical literature, but history at large.
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Petek Onur is Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Neo-Ottoman Imaginaries in Contemporary Turkey
Editors: Catharina Raudvere, Petek Onur
Series Title: Modernity, Memory and Identity in South-East Europe
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-08023-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-08022-7Published: 14 December 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-08025-8Published: 14 December 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-08023-4Published: 13 December 2022
Series ISSN: 2523-7985
Series E-ISSN: 2523-7993
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 321
Number of Illustrations: 65 b/w illustrations
Topics: Modern History, Social History, History, general, European History