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Politics of Public Memory in Turkey (Modern Intellectual and Political History of the Middle East)
Esra Ozyurek
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Description for Politics of Public Memory in Turkey (Modern Intellectual and Political History of the Middle East)
Hardcover. Turkish society is frequently accused of having amnesia. This volume provides an understanding of contemporary Turkey and how its different representations of the past have become metaphors through which individuals and groups define their cultural identity and political position. Editor(s): Ozyurek, Esra. Series: Modern Intellectual and Political History of the Middle East. Num Pages: 224 pages, 15 black-&-white illustrations, index, notes. BIC Classification: 1DVT; HBJF; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 164 x 21. Weight in Grams: 478.
Turkish society is frequently accused of having amnesia. It has been said that there is no social memory in Turkey before Mustafa Kemal Ataturk founded modern Turkey after the first World War. Indeed, in 1923, the newly founded Turkish Republic committed to a modernist future by erasing the memory of its Ottoman past. Now, almost eighty years after the establishment of the Republic, the grandchildren of the founders have a different relationship with history. New generations make every effort to remember, record, and reconcile earlier periods. The multiple and personalized representations of the past with which they engage allow contemporary ... Read more
Turkish society is frequently accused of having amnesia. It has been said that there is no social memory in Turkey before Mustafa Kemal Ataturk founded modern Turkey after the first World War. Indeed, in 1923, the newly founded Turkish Republic committed to a modernist future by erasing the memory of its Ottoman past. Now, almost eighty years after the establishment of the Republic, the grandchildren of the founders have a different relationship with history. New generations make every effort to remember, record, and reconcile earlier periods. The multiple and personalized representations of the past with which they engage allow contemporary ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Syracuse University Press
Condition
New
Series
Modern Intellectual and Political History of the Middle East
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780815631316
SKU
V9780815631316
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About Esra Ozyurek
Esra Ozyurek is an associate professor in the department of anthropology at the University of California - San Diego. She is the author Nostalgia for the Modern: Privatization of State Secularism in Turkey.
Reviews for Politics of Public Memory in Turkey (Modern Intellectual and Political History of the Middle East)
As the contributors show, the past will not be suppressed. Even as individuals are now looking back into their multi-stranded history to find for themselves alternative identities to those prescribed by the supposedly homogeneous Turkish national state, past traumas remain a palpable force that sets the terms of debate and the limits of the permissible. The essays [here] cover a ... Read more