Between Orient and Occident: The Construction of a Post-Imperial Turkish Identity in Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar’s Novel Huzur

Johanna Chovanec

doi:https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004513150_010

Between Orient and Occident: The Construction of a Post-Imperial Turkish Identity in Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar’s Novel Huzur

Johanna Chovanec

Department of European and Comparative Literature and Language Studies

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Abstract

This paper aims at showing that imagology is a promising method for analysing images of the European Other and the Turkish Self as expressed in Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar’s novel Huzur (A Mind at Peace, 1948).The narrative challenges the rhetoric of early Turkish nationalism by promoting a synthesis of the national present with both the melancholically evoked Ottoman heritage and with European cultures. At the same time, the novel’s protagonists stand for diverse and often contradicting conceptions of Self and Other and thus provide an insight into the various identity conflicts present in Republican Turkey.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	New Perspectives on Imagology
Editors	Gianna Zocco, Sandra Folie, Katharina Edtstadler
Place of Publication	Leiden
Publisher	Brill
Chapter	8
Pages	181-200
Number of pages	20
ISBN (Print)	978-9-00451-315-0
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004513150_010
Publication status	Published - 2022

Publication series

Series	Studia imagologica
Volume	30

Austrian Fields of Science 2012

602052 Turkish studies
602053 Comparative literature studies

Keywords

Imagology
Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar
Turkish Literature

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Literature and the Legacy of Empire: Approaching Turkey’s Post-Imperial Condition through Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar
Chovanec, J., May 2024, In: Philosophy & Social Criticism. 50, 4, p. 608-628 21 p., 1.
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Between Orient and Occident: The Construction of a Post-Imperial Turkish Identity in Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar’s Novel Huzur

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Literature and the Legacy of Empire: Approaching Turkey’s Post-Imperial Condition through Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar

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