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Author Philliou, Christine May, author.

Title Turkey : a past against history / Christine M. Philliou
Published Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2021]

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Description 1 online resource (x, 278 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents Introduction : How happy is he who calls himself a Turk? -- One. Against power? (1888-1909) -- Two. The contradictions of Ottoman constitutionalism and the remaking of Muhalefet (1908-1913) : the porcupine speaks -- Three. The joke (1913-1918) -- Four. The true face of Istanbul (1918-1922) -- Five. Muhalefet from abroad (1922-1927) -- Six. There is a world underground (1928-1945) -- Seven. Muhalefet in the free world (1945-1965) -- Epilogue : Muhalefet, reconsidered -- Afterword -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary "From its earliest days, the dominant history of the Turkish Republic was told as a triumphant narrative of national self-determination and secular democratic modernization. In that officially sanctioned account, the years between the fall of the Ottoman Empire and the formation of the Turkish state marked an absolute rupture, and the Turkish nation formed an absolute unity. In recent years, this hermetic division has begun to erode-but as the old consensus collapses, new histories and accounts of political authority have been slow to take its place. In this richly detailed alternative history of Turkey, Christine M. Philliou focuses on the notion of political opposition and dissent-muhalefet-to weave together the Ottoman and Turkish periods. Taking the perennial dissident Refik Halid Karay (1888-1965) as a subject, guide, and interlocutor, she traces the fissures within the Ottoman and the modern Turkish elite that bridged the Ottoman Empire and Republican Turkey. Exploring Karay's political and literary writings across four regimes and two stints in exile, along with his direct confrontation with Mustafa Kemal Atatürk at a crucial moment in 1919, Philliou upends the official history of Turkey and offers new dimensions to our understanding of its political authority and culture"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (JSTOR, viewed on March 05, 2021)
Subject Karay, Refik Halit, 1888-1965 -- Criticism and interpretation
SUBJECT Karay, Refik Halit, 1888-1965 fast
Subject Political culture -- Turkey -- History -- 20th century
Electronic books.
e-books.
HISTORY -- Middle East -- Turkey & Ottoman Empire.
Political culture
Politics and government
SUBJECT Turkey -- Politics and government -- 20th century
Subject Turkey
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2020030583
ISBN 0520382390
9780520382398