ABSTRACT
This Handbook provides a comprehensive overview of Turkish literature within both a local and global context.
Across eight thematic sections a collection of subject experts use close readings of literature materials to provide a critical survey of the main issues and topics within the literature. The chapters provide analysis on a wide range of genres and text types, including novels, poetry, religious texts, and drama, with works studied ranging from the fourteenth century right up to the present day. Using such a historic scope allows the volume to be read across cultures and time, while simultaneously contextualizing and investigating how modern Turkish literature interacts with world literature, and finds its place within it. Collectively, the authors challenge the national literary historiography by replacing the Ottoman Turkish literature in the Anatolian civilizations with its plurality of cultures. They also seek to overcome the institutional and theoretical shortcomings within current study of such works, suggesting new approaches and methods for the study of Turkish literature.
The Routledge Handbook on Turkish Literature marks a new departure in the reading and studying of Turkish literature. It will be a vital resource for those studying literature, Middle East studies, Turkish and Ottoman history, social sciences, and political science.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
section Section I|39 pages
Mystical Genesis
section Section II|45 pages
Ottoman Poetics
chapter 4|11 pages
Words That Are Daggers
chapter 6|11 pages
Towards a Theory of Ottoman Allegory
section Section III|34 pages
Cultures of Reading
chapter 9|11 pages
Rewriting as an Ottoman Translation Practice
chapter 10|10 pages
Narrative as the Literary Public
section Section IV|48 pages
Women and Gender
chapter 11|10 pages
Methodological Challenges in Late Ottoman and Turkish Literary Scholarship
chapter 14|16 pages
Towards a Gynocritical Study of Turkish Fiction
section Section V|35 pages
Linguistic Diversity
chapter 16|11 pages
Comparative Glimpse of the Early Steps of Novelistic Imagination in Turkish
chapter 17|11 pages
Making the “Other” Your Own
section Section VI|47 pages
National Identity
chapter 20|10 pages
Imagining the Nation From the Street
section Section VII|62 pages
Literary Modernisms
chapter 24|11 pages
The Emergence and the End of an Endemic Genre in Turkish Literature
chapter 25|12 pages
Poetic Urbanism in Turkish Modernist Poetry
section Section VIII|36 pages
Political Turmoils and Traumas