Literary and cultural crossroads in the late Ottoman empire / edited by Evangelia Balta.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Balta, Evangelia, editor.

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Turkey--Literatures--History and criticism.

Turkey.

Turkish literature--Minority authors--History and criticism.

Turkish literature.

Minorities--Turkey.

Minorities.

Karamanlides.

Dhimmis (Islamic law)--Turkey.

Dhimmis (Islamic law).

Turkish literature--History and criticism.

Karamanli dialect.

Turkish language--Dialects.

Turkish language.

Turkey--Civilization.

Physical Description:

xix, 348 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, portraits ; 28 cm

Place of Publication:

İstanbul : Boyut, 2024.

Language Note:

Text in English; contributions in English (10) and French (1).

Summary:

"This volume continues the efforts of the previous collective volumes devoted to Karamanlidika Studies, which aim to place across the disciplines of history, cultural studies, and literature each ethno-confessional community of the Ottoman Empire, Turkophone, and non-Turkophone, in relation to the cognate practices of the others. It is a collection of studies of non-dominant or less commonly studied groups and some influential personages among them. These contributions shed new light on overlooked non-Muslim Ottoman subjects by exploiting various primary sources, archival material, and narratives in Greek, Turkish (in multiple scripts), Armenian, Sephardic-Jewish, and several European languages. The volume is a cross-fertilization that contributes substantially to understanding culture as a dynamic process through which the Ottoman ethno-religious groups reciprocally define themselves and others. These ten essays attempt to write the history of the non-Muslim peoples of the empire as an Ottoman history rather than as a chapter of it, thus aiding a better understanding of it. They draw attention to the shared histories of the peoples of the Ottoman Empire at the points where their cultures converge despite differences in religion, ethnicity, denomination, and language. They also lend themselves to dialogue not only with Ottomanists but furthermore, with scholars who investigate broader issues of migration, urbanization, state building, refugeeism, memory, and protection and preservation of material cultural heritage."-- Back cover.

Contents:

Introduction / Evangelia Balta

Intertwined literatures : Karamanli, Armeno-Turkish, and regular Ottoman versions of the Köroğlu folk-tale / Edith Gülçin Ambros, Hülya Çelik, Ani Sargsyan

A 19th-century comedy in the Armenian language written in the Greek alphabet / Gevorg Kazaryan, Evangelia Balta

The Judeo-Spanish Joha and the Turkish Nasreddin Hodja : an exploration of extra-imperial Ottoman Sephardic humor in the Sephardic American newspaper La América / Osman Cihan Sert

On Harput (Elazığ) and on Manis (folk poems) shared by Ottoman Turks, Armenians, Karamanli Greeks, and Cypriot Turks / Edith Gülçin Ambros

A multi-lingual proclamation by the Allied Forces in Istanbul (1921) / Andrew Peak, Scott Price

The narrative of the 1923 population exchange through Karamanli refugee poetry / Koray Saçkan

Konstantinos Adosides, a Karamanli in Crete : a modern Mediterranean statesman (1866-1878) / Eleftheria Zei

Tracing the life and work of Karamanli Avraam Papazoglou in the troubled 1930s / Anthi Karra

János Eckmann et Eugène Dalleggio : la correspondance relative à l'élaboration de la Bibliographie Karamanli / Stavros Anestidis

Ottoman and Karamanli archival material and refugee testimonies write the history of the Rums of Germir/Kermira (Kayseri) / Evangelia Balta, Gözde Kuzu Dinçbaş.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-325) and index.

ISBN:

9789752313217

9752313213

OCLC:

1470972116