Focusing on the selected travel books and memoirs of the early Republican intellectual Falih Rıfkı Atay, this study illustrates an unconventional approach to the early Republican period. The travel books and memoirs in question have at least two types of importance in the scope of the study. Firstly, while Falih Rıfkı Atay operationalized travel books on behalf of finding the most appropriate model for Turkey’s development, he also struggled to seek the ways in which “Turkish identity” can be defined. This argument questions the early claims that associated the author with being the sole, passive disseminator of fixed, pre-given Kemalist ideology. The memoirs and collected essays of the author, on the other hand, indicated different interpretations and perceptions towards the republican regime in the eyes of ordinary people of the time. Secondly, his critique and unconventional thoughts on controversial issues like religion and women present a fertile area of study allowing for the rethinking of the established roles that the early Republican intellectuals have been affiliated with until recently.
Künye
Kitabın Adı: |
Kemalist, Once Upon a Time: Falih Rıfkı Atay and His Unconventional Approach to the Early Republican Period |
Hazırlayan: |
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Dizi Adı: |
History - 157 |
Baskı Adedi: |
100 |
Yayın Yılı: |
2016 |
Sayfa: |
125 |
Ebat: |
13.5 x 21 cm. |
Kağıt: |
Enzo 70gr. |
Kapak: |
Bora Gürsoy |
Cilt/Kapak: |
250 gr. Mat, Amerikan Bristrol, 4 renk |
ISBN/Barkod: |
978-605-9022-80-4 |
İçindekiler
TABLE OF CONTENTS
CHAPTER
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER
Criticism of the Sources
Discordant Abundance
Scarcity of the Secondary Sources
An Ottoman Child
An Earlier Break before 1923
The Full-time Porte-Parole of the Regime
CHAPTER II
ATAY'S DICHOTOMY
CLASHING REPRESENTATIONS OF TURKEY IN THE TRAVEL
BOOKS AND MEMOIRS
Situating Turkey among other Contemporaries
"Immobility" and Reminding Turks Who They Were
Changing Mentalities, Functional Reasons
Introducing Turkey to the
A Double Bind: Excesses and Moderations
What is Debatable, and What is not?
Facing Inner Dilemmas
Managing the Double Bind
The Imperial Hunchback
The Kemalist Rush
"31 Mart Hakkı" A Bigoted Religious Leader
The Unionist: Everything under the Sun
CHAPTER III
DIVING INTO THE ACHILLES HEEL:
REAWAKING THE ISSUE OF ISLAM AND WOMEN IN
MODERN TURKEY
Kemalism: "A Great and Radical Reformation of Religion
The Women of an Unaccomplished Revolution
CHAPTER IV
CONCLUSION
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
