Reading Occupied Istanbul: Turkish Subject-Formation from Historical Trauma to Literary Trope

Göknar, Erdağ

doi:10.1080/14735784.2014.882792

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“…Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoglu attempts to depict the moral decadence of Pera by referring to the biblical story of Sodom and Gomorrah (Goknar 2014). Accordingly, Pera is portrayed as a "modem Sodom."…”

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“…In literature, a recent article focuses on the cultural history of the armistice period by analyzing Halide Edib Adivar' s Atesten Giimlek (Shirt of Flame), Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoglu's Sodom ve Gomore (Sodom and Gomorrah), and Ahmet Hamdi Tanpmar's Sahnenin Disindakiler (Outside the Scene). Goknar (2014) argues that these authors consider occupied istanbul the stage for the construction of "homo secularis" as well as for the justification of the "severity of the Kemalist cultural revolution" between 1923 and 1938. Indeed, although Goknar attempted to criticize the binary logics of Halide Edib, Tanpmar, and Karaosmanoglu, his rhetoric is shaped by sharp cultural dualities pitting the cosmopolitan Ottoman past against the secular republic.…”

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The allied occupation of İstanbul and the construction of Turkish national identity in the early twentieth century

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2018

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This article tells the story of the construction of Turkish national identity in the early republican era by addressing two canonical novels about occupied İstanbul:Sodom ve Gomore(“Sodom and Gomorrah”) by Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoğlu andBiz İnsanlar(“We People”) by Peyami Safa. Following the establishment of the Turkish Republic, Turkish nationalist intellectuals attempted to offer certain formulations and implemented various mechanisms to create a national self. The study aims to focus on the ways in which Karaosmanoğlu and Safa create the new Turkish national identity and deals with the questions of how occupied İstanbul was perceived by these intellectuals and how the memory of the Allied occupation of İstanbul, the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, and the National Liberation Struggle shaped Turkish elites' self-identification as well as their formulation of the national identity.

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The allied occupation of İstanbul and the construction of Turkish national identity in the early twentieth century

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2018

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“…Göknar argues that the immorality is meant to be symbolic of the bankruptcy of Ottoman cosmopolitanism, which can only be remedied by the success of the national movement. 86 Whereas nationalist authors such as Halide Edip Adıvar tended to portray strong women as essential to the national cause, Karaosmanoglu's early works evince a deep pessimism about dominant narratives of progress and women's advancement.…”

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THE TWILIGHT OF OTTOMAN SUFISM: ANTIQUITY, IMMORALITY, AND NATION IN YAKUP KADRI KARAOSMANOĞLU'SNUR BABA

Wilson

2017

Int. J. Middle East Stud.

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This article examines modernist-nationalist thought on Sufi lodges during the late Ottoman Empire and early Turkish Republic via the controversial novel Nur Baba (1922) by Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoglu. Widely translated and the basis of the first-ever Turkish motion picture, Nur Baba depicts a debauched Sufi lodge in turn-of-the-century Istanbul where drug use, alcoholism, and illicit amorous liaisons run amok. The novel played an important role in shaping public perceptions of Sufi lodges in the twilight years of the Ottoman Empire. This piece explores the novel's place among early 20th-century critiques of Sufism, its approach to national history, its historical setting (during the reign of Sultan Abdülhamid II), and its close relationship to the intellectual concerns of the Second Constitutional Period . It argues for a revised understanding of the novel's historical setting and contends that the novel employs a combination of moralistic critique and romantic nostalgia that is central to modernist-nationalist treatments of Sufism that instrumentalize Sufi culture for nation-building purposes.

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The Ottoman Myth in Turkish Literature

Chovanec

2021

Modernity, Memory and Identity in South-East Europe

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Reading Occupied Istanbul: Turkish Subject-Formation from Historical Trauma to Literary Trope

Abstract: The Allied occupation of Istanbul is a little-

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The allied occupation of İstanbul and the construction of Turkish national identity in the early twentieth century

The allied occupation of İstanbul and the construction of Turkish national identity in the early twentieth century

THE TWILIGHT OF OTTOMAN SUFISM: ANTIQUITY, IMMORALITY, AND NATION IN YAKUP KADRI KARAOSMANOĞLU'SNUR BABA

The Ottoman Myth in Turkish Literature

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