1st Edition
Depicting the Late Ottoman Empire in Turkish Autobiographies Images of a Past World
By Philipp Wirtz
Copyright 2017
188 Pages
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Routledge
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Routledge
186 Pages
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Routledge
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The period between the 1880s and the 1920s was a time of momentous changes in the Ottoman Empire. It was also an age of literary experiments, of which autobiography forms a part. This book analyses Turkish autobiographical narratives describing the part of their authors’ lives that was spent while the Ottoman Empire still existed. The texts studied in this book were written in the cultural... Read more
Note on transliteration, dates and names
Acknowledgements
Introduction
I Why write Autobiography?
II Origins, Backgrounds and Beginnings
III Presenting Ottoman Childhoods
IV Education: Reminiscences of School
V End of Empire: Revolution, Unrest and War
VI Post-Ottoman Autobiography for Western Audiences
Conclusion: Remembering lost Ottoman Worlds
Appendix: Glossary of Key Authors
Bibliography
Index
Biography
Philipp Wirtz studied the history, languages and cultures of the Middle East in Frankfurt am Main, Bamberg and London. He holds a PhD from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London and teaches Middle East history at SOAS and the University of Warwick.
