Uncoupling Language and Religion - An Exploration into the Margins of Turkish Literature

By looking at the contributions to Turkish literature of non-Muslim authors, this book lays the groundwork 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.

List of contents

Table of ContentsPreface
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 Han¿m, 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, Nam¿k Kemal, and Orientalism
7. Ali Kemal's Forgotten Adventure in the Desert
8. Nâz¿m Hikmet and the Demystification of the East
Conclusion: To Do or Not to Do God: On Transgression, Literature and Religion
Bibliography

About the author

Laurent Mignon is Associate Professor of Turkish at the University of Oxford and a fellow of the Middle East Centre at Saint Antony's College. His research interests range from minority literatures in late Ottoman Turkey to literary engagements with non-Abrahamic religions in a Turkish context.

Summary

Offers an invitation to rethink our understanding of Turkish literature as a tale of two ‘others’. The 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.

Product details

• Authors: Laurent Mignon
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2021
• EAN: 9781644695791
• ISBN: 978-1-64469-579-1
• No. of pages: 252
• Series: Ottoman and Turkish Studies
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Ottoman Empire, Turkey, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literary studies: poetry and poets, Social groups: religious groups and communities, Literary studies - fiction, novelists & prose writers, Religious groups - social & cultural aspects