Overview

Central to the nineteenth-century Ottoman Tanzimat reform project, the novel originally developed outside of Ottoman space, yet was adopted as a didactic tool to model and generate new forms of Ottoman citizenship. Essays in this book explore the appropriation of the novel as a literary genre and its deployment in the late Ottoman cultural project of constructing an Ottoman modernity. Analyzing key texts and authors, from the works of Ahmet Midhat Efendi to Mizanci Murad and Vartan Pasha, among others, the book's chapters explore the novel genre as far more than a case of importation of Western and non-Ottoman cultural productions, but rather as a vehicle for the cultivation of indigenous modern subjectivities.

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Author:   Prof. Monica M. Ringer (Amherst College, USA) ,  Dr Etienne Charrière (Bilkent University, Turkey)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   I.B. Tauris
Weight:   0.503kg
ISBN:  

9781788314527

ISBN 10:   1788314522
Pages:   232
Publication Date:   16 April 2020
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

Introduction Monica M. Ringer and Etienne E. Charrière Thinking in French, Writing in Persian: Aesthetics, Intelligibility, and the Literary Turkish of the 1890s Zeynep Seviner How Not To Translate: Cultural Authenticity and Translatability in Recaizade Mahmut Ekrem's Araba Sevdasi and Ahmet Midhat Efendi's Felâtun Bey ile Râkim Efendi Melih Levi Beyond Binaries: Ahmet Midhat Efendi’s Prescriptive Modern Monica M. Ringer Cultivating Ottoman Citizens: Reading Ahmet Midhat Efendi’s Felâtun Bey ile Râkim Efendi with Âli Pasha’s Political Testament Owen Green Perils of the French Maiden: Women, Work, Virtue, and the Public Space in Some French Tales by Ahmet Midhat Efendi A. Holly Shissler The Tanzimat Novel in the Service of Science: On Ahmet Midhat Efendi's American Doctors Ercüment Asil Mizanci Murad’s Turfanda mi yoksa Turfa mi as Historical Novel Benjamin C. Fortna Inconvertible Romance: Piety, Community, and the Politically Disruptive Force of Love in Akabi Hikayesi Neveser Köker The Late Ottoman Novel as Social Laboratory: Celal Nuri and the Woman Question Ayse Polat Ottoman Babel: Language, Cosmopolitanism, and the Novel in the Long Tanzimat Period Ali Bolcakan Translating Communities: Reading Foreign Fiction Across Communal Boundaries in the Tanzimat Period Etienne E. Charrière The Tanzimat Period and its Diverse Cultures of Translation: Towards New Thinking in Comparative Literature Özen Nergis Dolcerocca List of Contributors Bibliography

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'Ottoman Culture and the Project of Modernity is a successfully conceived volume on the 19th-century Ottoman Empire and its complex modernization efforts, highlighting the significance of local elements in the 19th-century transformations, showing that modernity did not always mean western. ' * Emine Evered, Associate Professor, Michigan State University, USA *

Author Information

Monica M. Ringer is Professor of History and Asian Languages and Civilisations at Amherst College, USA. Etienne E. Charriere is Assistant Professor in the Department of Turkish Literature at Bilkent University, Turkey.

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