TY - BOOK AU - Mignon,Laurent TI - Uncoupling Language and Religion: An Exploration into the Margins of Turkish Literature T2 - Ottoman and Turkish Studies SN - 9781644695807 AV - PL209.5.M56 M54 2021 U1 - 894/.35 23 PY - 2021///] CY - Boston, MA PB - Academic Studies Press KW - Literature and society KW - Turkey KW - Orientalism KW - Religion and literature KW - Turkish literature KW - Minority authors KW - History and criticism KW - 19th century KW - 20th century KW - LITERARY CRITICISM / Middle Eastern KW - bisacsh KW - Armeno-Turkish KW - Jewish KW - Judaeo-Turkish KW - Karamanli KW - Middle East KW - Other KW - Ottoman literature KW - comparative KW - criticism KW - culture KW - essays KW - fiction KW - non-Muslim authors KW - orientalism KW - philosophy KW - poetry KW - religious minorities N1 - 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; restricted access N2 - 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 UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781644695807?locatt=mode:legacy UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781644695807 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781644695807/original ER -