TY  - BOOK
AU  - Yavuz,M.Hakan
TI  - Nostalgia for the empire: the politics of neo-Ottomanism 
SN  - 9780197512289
AV  - DR438.8 .Y38 2020
U1  - 956.1/015 23
PY  - 2020///
CY  - New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Turkish literature
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Collective memory
KW  - Turkey
KW  - Nostalgia
KW  - Group identity
KW  - History
KW  - Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918
KW  - Historiography
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - "This book examines the social and political origins of beleaguered and wistful expressions of nostalgia about the Ottoman Empire for various groups in the region. Rather than focus on how Ottomanism evolved, the book examines how social and political memories of the Ottoman past have been transformed in Turkish society along with reactions from the outside world. This Ottoman past, as remembered now, is grounded in contemporary conservative Islamic values. Thus, the connection between memories of the Ottoman past and these values defines Turkey's new identity. This new expression of memory portrays Turkey as a victim of the major powers, justifying its position against its imagined internal and external enemies. This book explores why Turkish society has selectively brought the Ottoman Empire back into the public mindset and for what purpose. The book traces how memory of the Ottoman period has changed in Turkish literature, mainstream history books and other cultural products from the 1940s to the 21st century. A key aspect of Turkish literature is its criticism of the Jacobin modernization of Turkey matched by its return to the Ottoman past to articulate an alternative political language. This book responds to several interrelated questions: What is neo-Ottomanism, in general, and what is the significance of various terms using Ottoman as a variant and for what purpose do they serve? Who constructed the term and for what purpose? What are the social and political origins of the current nostalgia for the Ottoman past?"--
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