Ottoman propaganda and Turkish identity : literature in Turkey during World War I / Erol Köroǧlu.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Köroğlu, Erol.

Series:

Library of Ottoman studies ; v. 13.

Library of Ottoman studies ; 13

Language:

English

Turkish

Subjects (All):

Turkish literature--20th century--History and criticism.

Turkish literature.

World War, 1914-1918--Influence.

World War, 1914-1918.

World War, 1914-1918--Turkey--Propaganda.

Nationalism and literature--Turkey.

Nationalism and literature.

Turkey.

Genre:

Academic theses.

Physical Description:

xxiii, 244 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Tauris Academic Studies : In the United States of America and Canada distributed by Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

Summary:

Throughout World War I the Entente Powers (France, Britain, Russia and later the USA) directed widespread efforts towards the generation of propaganda as a weapon of war, with devastating effect. However, in the underdeveloped and multi-ethnic Ottoman Empire, the Turkish intelligentsia could not produce adequate propaganda to support the war effort. As the war unfolded, writers abandoned their initial attempts at propaganda and turned instead to the task of defining a national identity. In this new reassessment of Turkish literature and propaganda in World War I, Erol Kö roglu argues the Ottoman-Turkish intelligentsia used the conditions created by the war to eliminate the deficiencies in national culture and build a Turkish identity, a project inherited from the pre-war years.

Notes:

Shortened version of "Türk edebiyatı ve Birinci Dünya Savaşı" published by İletişim in Turkish, 2004, originated author's thesis (Bogazici Univ., Istanbul, 2003)--Acknowledgements.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [226]-237) and index.

ISBN:

1845114906

9781845114909

OCLC:

171111683