Gavin D. Brockett

How Happy to Call Oneself a Turk

Provincial Newspapers and the Negotiation of a Muslim National Identity

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Produktbeschreibung

The modern nation-state of Turkey was established in 1923, but when and how did its citizens begin to identify themselves as Turks? Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Turkey's founding president, is almost universally credited with creating a Turkish national identity through his revolutionary program to "secularize" the former heartland of the Ottoman Empire. Yet, despite Turkey's status as the lone secular state in the Muslim Middle East, religion remains a powerful force in Turkish society, and the country today is governed by a democratically elected political party with a distinctly religious (Islamist) orientation. In this history, Gavin D. Brockett takes a fresh look at the formation of Turkish national identity, focusing on the relationship between Islam and nationalism and the process through which a "religious national identity" emerged. Challenging the orthodoxy that Atatürk and the political elite imposed a sense of national identity from the top down, Brockett examines the social and political debates in provincial newspapers from around the country. He shows that the unprecedented expansion of print media in Turkey between 1945 and 1954, which followed the end of strict, single-party authoritarian government, created a forum in which ordinary people could inject popular religious identities into the new Turkish nationalism. Brockett makes a convincing case that it was this fruitful negotiation between secular nationalism and Islam-rather than the imposition of secularism alone-that created the modern Turkish national identity.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Texas Press
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 509g
• ISBN-13: 9780292744004
• ISBN-10: 0292744005
• Artikelnr.: 35556975

Autorenporträt

By Gavin D. Brockett

Inhaltsangabe

* List of Illustrations
* Preface
* Acknowledgments
* Introduction
* Chapter 1. Imagining the Secular Nation: Mustafa Kemal and the
Creation of Modern Turkey
* Chapter 2. Narrating the Nation: Print Culture and the Nationalist
Historical Narrative
* Chapter 3. Provincial Newspapers and the Emergence of a National
Print Culture
* Chapter 4. Religious Print Media and the National Print Culture
* Chapter 5. Muslim Turks against Russian Communists: The Turkish
Nation in the Emerging Cold War World
* Chapter 6. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk and Mehmed the Conqueror:
Negotiating a National Historical Narrative
* Chapter 7. Religious Reactionaries or Muslim Turks?: Print Culture
and the Negotiation of National Identity
* Conclusion. A Muslim National Identity in Modern Turkey
* Notes
* Bibliography
* Index