Ottoman Culture and the Project of Modernity: Reform and Translation in the Tanzimat Novel - Paperback
by Monica M. Ringer (Editor), Etienne Charrière (Editor)
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.
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.Made with care and unconditionally loved by our customers, this signature bestseller exceeds all expectations.
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