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Grammatology and Literary Modernity in Turkey

By Nergis Erturk

Grammatology and Literary Modernity in Turkey Contemporary literature

Grammatology and Literary Modernity in Turkey

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The 1928 Turkish alphabet reform replacing the Perso-Arabic script with the Latin phonetic alphabet is an emblem of Turkish modernization. Grammatology and Literary Modernity in Turkey traces the history of Turkish alphabet and language reform from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century, examining its effects on modern Turkish literature. In readings of the novels, essays, and poetry of Ahmed Midhat, Rec izade Ekrem, mer Seyfeddin, Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar, Peyami Safa, and N zim Hikmet, Nergis Ert rk argues that modern Turkish literature is profoundly self-conscious of dramatic change in its own historical conditions of possibility. Where literary historiography has sometimes idealized the Turkish language reforms as the culmination of a successful project of Westernizing modernization, Ert rk suggest a different critical narrative: one of the consolidation of control over communication, forging a unitary nation and language from a pluralistic and multilingual society.
Product details
Edition:
illustrated
Number of Pages:
236
Release Date:
2011-10-19
Publication Date:
2011-10-19
Publisher:
OUP US
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0199746680
ISBN13:
9780199746682
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
566 g
Height:
161 cm
Width:
240 cm
Thickness:
19 cm
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