ISBN:
9781138631311
Language:
English
Pages:
xii, 312 Seiten
Year of publication:
2019
Series Statement:
Life narratives of the Ottoman realm individual and empire in the Near East
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Istanbul - Kushta - Constantinople
DDC:
949.61/8015
Keywords:
Istanbul (Turkey) Biography History 19th century
;
Istanbul (Turkey) Biography History 20th century
;
Istanbul (Turkey) History 19th century
;
Biography
;
Sources
;
Istanbul (Turkey) History 20th century
;
Biography
;
Sources
;
Konferenzschrift
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Osmanisches Reich
;
Istanbul
;
Biografieforschung
;
Geschichte 1830-1930
;
Osmanisches Reich
;
Istanbul
;
Biografieforschung
;
Minderheit
;
Ausländer
;
Identität
;
Geschichte 1830-1930
Abstract:
"Istanbul - Kushta - Constantinople presents thirteen studies that draw on contemporary life narratives that shed light on little explored aspects of nineteenth-century Ottoman Istanbul. As a broad category of personal writing that goes beyond the traditional confines of the autobiography, life narratives range from memoirs, letters, reports, travelogues and descriptions of daily life in the city and its different neighborhoods. By focusing on individual experiences and perspectives, life narratives allow the historian to transcend rigid political narratives and to recover lost voices, especially of those underrepresented groups, including women and members of non-Muslim communities. The studies of this volume focus on a variety of narratives produced by Muslim and Christian women, by non-Muslims and Muslims, as well as by natives and outsiders alike
Abstract:
They dispel European Orientalist stereotypes and cross class divides and ethnic identities. Travel accounts of outsiders provide us with valuable observations of daily life in the city that residents often overlooked. Accounts from Ottoman subjects, however, reveal the social tensions experienced within particular communities amongst themselves as well as in interaction with greater Ottoman society. Members of the Jewish, Bulgarian and Armenian communities of the city developed different strategies in navigating the social and political change arising from the modernizing reforms of the nineteenth century. By focusing on life narratives, this volume weaves together a tapestry of diverse experiences in the Ottoman capital, viewed from various angles, gender perspectives and social and ethnic backgrounds"
Abstract:
The memories of German-speaking women of Constantinople / Gudrun Wedel -- Wanderlust, follies, and self-inflicted misfortunes : the memoirs of Anna Forneris and her thirty years in Constantinople and the Levant / Malte Fuhrmann -- The imperial harem network in Istanbul, 1850s to 1922 / Börte Sagaster -- Amalgamated observations : assessing American impressions of nineteenth-century Constantinople and its peoples / Kent Schull -- Istanbul and the formation of an Arab teenager's identity. Recollections of a cadet in the Ottoman army in 1914 and 1916-17 / Malek Sharif -- Hispanic observers of Istanbul / Pablo Martín Asuero
Abstract:
The autobiographical writings of the Constantinople Judezmo journalist David Fresco as a clue toward his attitude to language / David M. Bunis -- Istanbul's Jewish community through the eyes of a European Jew. Ludwig A. Frankl in his Nach Jerusalem / Yaron ben-Naeh -- A stroll through the quarters of Constantinople : sketches of the city as seen through the eyes of the great satirist Hagop Baronian / Rachel Goshgarian -- From short stories to social topography : Misak Koçunyan's life landscapes / Aylin Koçunyan -- "Bulgar Milleti Nedir" syncretic forms of belonging in mid-nineteenth-century Istanbul / Darin Stephanov -- Twenty years in the Ottoman capital : the memoirs of Doctor Hristo Tanev Stambolski of Kazanlik (1843-1932) from an Ottoman point of view / Johann Strauss
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
