The politics of public memory in Turkey /

The politics of public memory in Turkey /

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Edition:	1st ed.
Imprint:	Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 2007.
Description:	x, 225 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Modern intellectual and political history of the Middle East. Modern intellectual and political history of the Middle East.
Subject:	Collective memory -- Turkey. Collective memory. Turkey -- History. Turkey. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10190631

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Other authors / contributors:	Özyürek, Esra.
ISBN:	0815631316 9780815631316
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-210) and index.
Summary:	"Turkish society is frequently accused of having amnesia. It has been said that there is no social memory in Turkey before Mustafa Kemal Ataturk founded modern Turkey after World War I. Indeed, in 1923, the newly founded Turkish Republic committed to a modernist future by erasing the memory of its Ottoman past. Now, almost eighty years after the establishment of the Republic, the grandchildren of the founders have a different relationship with history. New generations make every effort to remember, record, and reconcile earlier periods. The multiple, personalized representations of the past which they have recovered allow contemporary Turkish citizens to create alternative identities for themselves and their communities. Unlike its futuristic and homogenizing character at the turn of the twentieth century, Turkish nationalism today uses memories to generate varied narratives for the nation and its minority groups"--Jacket.
Other form:	Online version: Politics of public memory in Turkey. 1st ed. Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 2007

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