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3 - Asia in Europe, Europe in Asia

The Possibilities of Synthesis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 June 2021

Nicholas Danforth
Affiliation:
Wilson Center
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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 Turkey
Memory and Modernity since the Fall of the Ottoman Empire
, pp. 69 - 96
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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