Overview
Nâz)im Hikmet (1902-1963) is best known as a poet and communist whose daring flight by motorboat from Turkey to the Eastern Bloc captured international headlines in 1951. One of the most important poets to have written in the Turkish language, Nâz)im Hikmet's dramatic life story is fascinating in its own right, but also intersects with the story of the broader twentieth century. James H. Meyer situates Nâz)im Hikmet within the broader context of Turkish communist ""border-crossers,"" individuals whose lives would go on to be shaped significantly by their ability, inability, or need to traverse the frontier. Born at the turn of the twentieth century and coming of age in the early 1920s, the women and men from Nâz)im Hikmet's generation were the last of the Ottomans. Children of empire, they had grown up in an era of porous frontiers, but by the time they reached their third decade, these borders had begun to close. Drawing upon an enormous amount of previously untapped archival materials and personal papers from Moscow, Istanbul, Amsterdam, and Washington, DC, Meyer has written a biography of Nâz)im Hikmet unlike any other. A book of world history wrapped inside a life story, Red Star over the Black Sea shows how changing attitudes toward borders and the people who cross them impacted a late imperial generation all the way up to the final years of the Cold War.
Full Product Details
Author: James Meyer (Professor of History, Professor of History, Montana State University)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 18.00cm
, Height: 2.40cm
, Length: 25.30cm
Weight: 0.952kg
ISBN: 9780192871176
ISBN 10: 019287117
Pages: 400
Publication Date: 06 April 2023
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: To order
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Reviews
Red Star over the Black Sea is an intelligent and expertly crafted transnational history. * Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky, Russian Review *
Author Information
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.
