Uncoupling language and religion : an exploration into the margins of Turkish literature /

Mignon, Laurent, 1971-

Uncoupling language and religion : an exploration into the margins of Turkish literature / Laurent Mignon. - Boston : Academic Studies Press, [2021] - xxxiii, 216 pages ; 24 cm. - Ottoman and Turkish studies .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"This book is an invitation to rethink our understanding of Turkish literature as a tale of two "others." The first part of the book examines the contributions of non-Muslim authors, the "others" of modern Turkey, to the development of Turkish literature during the late Ottoman and early republican period, focusing on the works of largely forgotten authors. The second part discusses Turkey as the "other" of the West and the way authors writing in Turkish challenged orientalist representations. Thus this 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"--

9781644695791

2020058688


Baha Tevfik, -1914 --Crtiticism and interpretation.


Turkish literature--Minority authors--History and criticism.
Turkish literature--History and criticism.--19th century
Turkish literature--History and criticism.--20th century
Literature and society--Turkey.
Religion and literature--Turkey.
Orientalism.

PL209.5.M56 / M54 2021

894/.35