National Myths and Self-Na(rra)tions: Mustafa Kemal's Nutukand Halide Edib's Memoirs and The Turkish Ordeal

Adak, Hülya

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“…Further, news media and textbooks diffused knowledge produced by elites to a broad public, and for this, too, recent scholarship provides a wealth of evidence. Seyhan Bayraktar (2010) analyzes Turkish newspapers and their statements pertaining to the Armenian genocide , and several authors examine Turkish textbooks (Adak 2016;Akçam 2014;Wolfgram 2019). Together, memoirs, news media, and textbooks reveal the state of Turkish knowledge about the treatment of Armenians during World War I.…”

Section: Charging Effect: From Biography Via Scholarship To French Genocide Exhibitionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

God’s Property: Islam, Charity, and the Modern State

Moumtaz

2021

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the latter with the financial support of the French State, programme "Investissements d'avenir, " managed by the Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR-11-LABX-0027-01 Labex RFIEA+).The institutes, with their facilities and staff, provided ideal environments for writing and for exchanges with colleagues from many countries and disciplines, guarding against parochialism. STIAS enhanced my understanding of other societies' engagement with dark pasts. Many fellows, especially from diverse parts of the African continent, enriched my experience. The IEA served as a basis from which to engage with the rich intellectual life of Paris and to reach out to civil society and political actors. I built on benefits received during the summer of 2016 as a guest of the Fondation de la Maison des Sciences de l'Homme.More individuals than I can mention merit special mention. I ask those left out for forgiveness. The names of numerous interviewees in Paris, Massachusetts, and Minnesota have to remain anonymous. To them I am especially grateful.In Paris, Liora Israël and Jacques Commaille laid the foundation for a series of successful research visits, and John Hagan and Philip Smith helped pave the way to the French capital.

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Section: Charging Effect: From Biography Via Scholarship To French Genocide Exhibitionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

God’s Property: Islam, Charity, and the Modern State

Moumtaz

2021

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“…A famous 1927 speech by Mustafa Kemal (Atatürk) was crucial. In that speech, he skillfully hid the role of the former CUP in the independence struggle, portraying himself as the undisputed leader of the movement and the new republic (Adak 2003). Many memoirs show that this definition of the new Turkish reality conflicted with the actual historical situation.…”

Section: Strategies Of Denial: Historical and Personnel Decouplingmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Clashing with historical scholarship and radically opposed to Armenian knowledge, they simplify to the extreme. Easily identifiable errors abound (Akçam 2014;Adak 2016;Wolfgram 2019:175-180).…”

Section: Intergenerational Transmission Of Knowledge: Textbooksmentioning

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The Funeral of Mr. Wang: Life, Death, and Ghosts in Urbanizing China

Kipnis

2021

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In rural China funerals are conducted locally, on village land by village elders. But in urban areas, people have neither land for burials nor elder relatives to conduct funerals. Chinese urbanization, which has increased drastically in recent decades, involves the creation of cemeteries, state-run funeral homes, and small private funerary businesses. The Funeral of Mr. Wang examines social change in urbanizing China through the lens of funerals, the funerary industry, and practices of memorialization. It analyzes changes in family life, patterns of urban sociality, transformations in economic relations, the politics of memorialization, and the echoes of these changes in beliefs about the dead and ghosts.

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“…Nutuk, however, was not merely a historiographical tome but also a project of political maneuvering: it glorified the author at the expense of ex-comrades, justifying Kemal's single-party regime and the Independence Tribunals of 1926, in which the Turkish revolution devoured its own children. 47 America's rejection of the treaty of Lausanne, amounting to a rejection of emerging Turkey, earlier that year must also be factored into Kemal's tone, particularly as it relates to the WPL and the United States.…”

Section: Kemal and Edib: Tallying "Wrong-" And Strategic Westernizationsmentioning

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Turkey and the United States after World War I: National Memory, Local Categories, and Provincializing the Transnational

Gürel¹

2015

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This essay focuses on the tumultuous period between 1918 and 1923, from the end of World War I to the declaration of the Turkish republic, when the United States became seriously engaged with the fate of the Near East because of calls for a US mandate over Ottoman Turkey. At its center is the history and historiography of a short-lived Turkish Wilsonian Principles League (WPL), founded by the feminist intellectual Halide Edib, which called for the United States to assume a mandate over Turkey. The way that the WPL is overremembered in modern Turkey and forgotten in the United States shows how ideas about gender and sexuality continue to infuse national memory in both countries. Examining Woodrow Wilson’s reluctance to think of Turks as wards and the vilification of Edib by the first Turkish republican regime, the essay complicates the causal links we might be tempted to draw between racism and empire and asks us to consider the complex role that the local deployments of westernization play in the absence of actual US intervention.

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National Myths and Self-Na(rra)tions: Mustafa Kemal's Nutukand Halide Edib's Memoirs and The Turkish Ordeal

Cited by 51 publications

References 4 publications

God’s Property: Islam, Charity, and the Modern State

God’s Property: Islam, Charity, and the Modern State

The Funeral of Mr. Wang: Life, Death, and Ghosts in Urbanizing China

Turkey and the United States after World War I: National Memory, Local Categories, and Provincializing the Transnational

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