Red Star Over the Black Sea - Nazim Hikmet and His Generation

Nâz¿m Hikmet is Turkey's best-known poet and one of their most recognizable historical figures. James H. Meyer situates Nâzim's fascinating international life story within the context of his border-crossing generation of Turkish communist contemporaries, addressing changing attitudes in the 20th century toward borders and the people who cross them.

List of contents

• Prologue: Tears of Joy


• Introduction: The Border-Crosser


• 1: Child of the Imperial Borderlands


• 2: On the Road to Ankara


• 3: Up for Grabs in Anatolia


• 4: First Soviet Steps


• 5: In Revolutionary Russia


• 6: Moscow-Istanbul-Moscow-Istanbul


• 7: At Large in Istanbul


• 8: Closing Doors


• 9: Descending into Darkness


• 10: Desperate Measures


• 11: In Stalin's USSR


• 12: A Kind of Freedom


• 13: Final Frontiers


• Epilogue: Afterlives

About the author

A native of Ann Arbor, Michigan, James H. Meyer has spent more than three decades studying and living in the Turkish-Russian borderlands. After graduating with a BA in English from McGill University, he worked for seven years as a teacher in Istanbul. In 1999 Meyer returned to the US, completing an MA in Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University (2001) and a PhD in Middle Eastern and Russian history at Brown University (2007). Since 2009, he has taught history at Montana State University. Meyer's first book, Turks Across Empires, was published by OUP in 2014.

Summary

Nâzim Hikmet is Turkey's best-known poet and one of their most recognizable historical figures. James H. Meyer situates Nâzim's fascinating international life story within the context of his border-crossing generation of Turkish communist contemporaries, addressing changing attitudes in the 20th century toward borders and the people who cross them.

Additional text

Meyer's meticulously researched book offers the most comprehensive biography of Nâzım Hikmet to date and fills an important gap in the existing literature. It is a solid work of scholarship and gives great inspiration to those intending to contribute to the aforementioned biographical boom in Turkish studies.

Product details

• Authors: James Meyer, James (Professor of History Meyer, James H. Meyer, James H. (Associate Professor of Islamic Wo Meyer, James H. (Associate Professor of Islamic World History Meyer
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 02.03.2023
• EAN: 9780192871176
• ISBN: 978-0-19-287117-6
• No. of pages: 394
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); European History, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / Historical Geography, HISTORY / Middle East / Turkey & Ottoman Empire, Turkey, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Social and cultural history, turkish, Literary studies: poetry and poets, Historical Geography, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Eastern, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / General, Türkiye / Turkey