Arabs in Turkish political cartoons, 1876-1950 : national self and non-national other / İlkim Büke Okyar.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

List of illustrations -- Notes on transliteration -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Ethnic and cultural boundaries in early Ottoman entertainment: staging otherness -- Publishing and censoring: political cartoon press from empire to republic -- From Europe to Ottoman Empire: learning to illustrate the Orient -- "No wooden tongs, no Arab pashas": Istanbul's Arabs in revolutionary press -- From Ottoman center to periphery: the Arabs of Yemen, Tripolitania, and Egypt -- Transposing the Arab from national to non-national in early Republican cartoons -- Racialization of ethnicity and Arab as Turk's mirror image -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.

"Büke Okyar examines the development of Turkish national identity from the 1908 constitutional revolution to the inclusion of Alexandretta in 1939, using the lens of contemporary political cartoons. The book challenges the notion that ethno-religious stereotypes of the Arab are limited to the western dichotomy of the Other and seeks to highlight the importance of previously neglected colloquial Turkish sources"-- Provided by publisher.