Ottoman Culture and the Project of Modernity
Subtitle: Reform and Translation in the Tanzimat Novel
Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company, Limited
Published: 2020
Language: eng
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9781788314527
Subjects: Turkey, history; Middle eastern literature, history and criticism
Description: "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."--