Book contents
- The Remaking of Republican Turkey
- The Remaking of Republican Turkey
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 A Nation Votes
- 2 Turkey Attends the American Classroom
- 3 Asia in Europe, Europe in Asia
- 4 Multipurpose Empire
- 5 Making the Past Modern
- 6 Ottomans, Arabs, and Americans
- 7 The Path to Progress and to God
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
3 - Asia in Europe, Europe in Asia
The Possibilities of Synthesis
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 June 2021
- The Remaking of Republican Turkey
- The Remaking of Republican Turkey
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 A Nation Votes
- 2 Turkey Attends the American Classroom
- 3 Asia in Europe, Europe in Asia
- 4 Multipurpose Empire
- 5 Making the Past Modern
- 6 Ottomans, Arabs, and Americans
- 7 The Path to Progress and to God
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Chapter 3 explores the ways mid-century writers used art, history, travel, and gender to articulate a vision of Turkish identity that claimed to synthesize Western Modernity and Eastern tradition or transcend this division entirely. While writers from rival ideological backgrounds promoted different versions of Turkish modernity, they nonetheless shared the belief that this modernity should be a synthetic one, combining the best of East and West. In citing American examples to critique European modernity or putting a modern imprimatur on radically different ideas about women’s role in society, these authors demonstrated how creatively Turkey’s clichés could be employed.
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- The Remaking of Republican TurkeyMemory and Modernity since the Fall of the Ottoman Empire, pp. 69 - 96Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021