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5 - Making the Past Modern

Popular History in Print

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 June 2021

Nicholas Danforth
Nicholas Danforth
Affiliation:
Wilson Center
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Chapter 5 explores the visual and rhetorical styles through which Ottoman history was modernized. Faced with enduring Western Orientalism, Turkish authors, architects, and illustrators took a number of distinct stylistic steps to celebrate their history while presenting their relationship to it as an unequivocally modern one. The explosion of popular history magazines and historical novels during the 1950s provided a forum in which the act of reading about the past could itself become a performance of modernity. Whether blending popular history with pulp fiction or encouraging Turkish citizens to approach their country from the perspective of Western tourists, Turkish authors pioneered approaches to re-appropriating their own past that remain popular today.

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Turkeypopular historyOttoman EmpireOrientalismhistorical fictionWesternizationIstanbulTurkey
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The Remaking of Republican Turkey
Memory and Modernity since the Fall of the Ottoman Empire
 , pp. 126 - 149
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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