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Crafting Turkish National Identity, 1919-1927: A Rhetorical Approach book cover

1st Edition

Crafting Turkish National Identity, 1919-1927 A Rhetorical Approach

By Aysel Morin Copyright 2022
222 Pages
by Routledge

222 Pages
by Routledge

222 Pages
by Routledge
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Examining Mustafa Kemal Atatürk’s Büyük Nutuk ( The Great Public Address ), this book identifies the five founding political myths of Turkey: the First Duty, the Internal Enemy, the Encirclement, the Ancestor, and Modernity. Offering a comprehensive rhetorical analysis of Nutuk in its entirety, the book reveals how Atatürk crafted these myths, traces their discursive roots back to the... Read more

Introduction

Part 1: Rhetoric, Nationalism, and the Turkish Case

1. Constitutive Rhetoric and Nationalism

2. Development of Turkish Nationalism: Questions of identity from Ottomans to Turks

Part 2: The Founding Myths

3. The Myth of the First Duty

4. The Myth of the Internal Enemy

5. The Myth of the Ancestor

6. The Myth of Encirclement

7. The Myth of the Modernity

Part 3: Semiotic Universe of Contemporary Turkish Politics

8. Characteristics of the Collectivization Process and Militarization

9. AKP and the Current Deployment of Myths in Political Discourse

Final Thoughts

Biography

Aysel Morin is an associate professor in the School of Communication at East Carolina University, USA. Her research involves the rhetorical construction of collective identities, political and public discourse, critical and cultural studies, nationalism, and history.

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