Philipp Wirtz

Depicting the Late Ottoman Empire in Turkish Autobiographies (eBook, ePUB)

Images of a Past World

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Produktbeschreibung

The period between the 1880s and the 1920s was a time of momentous changes in the Ottoman Empire. This book analyses autobiographical narratives describing the part of their authors' lives that was spent while the Ottoman Empire still existed. Among the presented texts are autobiographies by writers, journalists, soldiers and politicians.

While the official Turkish republican discourse went towards a downright dismissal of the imperial past, autobiographical narratives offer a much more balanced picture. This book aims at showing some examples of how the authors endeavoured to paint what one of them, the doctor Tevfik Saglam, called "images of a past world."

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 186
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. März 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317152705
• Artikelnr.: 49984819

Autorenporträt

Philipp Wirtz studied the history, languages and cultures of the Middle East in Frankfurt am Main, Bamberg and London. He holds a PhD from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London and teaches Middle East history at SOAS and the University of Warwick.

Inhaltsangabe

Note on transliteration, dates and names

Acknowledgements

Introduction

I Why write Autobiography?

II Origins, Backgrounds and Beginnings

III Presenting Ottoman Childhoods

IV Education: Reminiscences of School

V End of Empire: Revolution, Unrest and War

VI Post-Ottoman Autobiography for Western Audiences

Conclusion: Remembering lost Ottoman Worlds

Appendix: Glossary of Key Authors

Bibliography





Index