Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Willert, Trine Stauning

Titel

Appropriating the Ottoman Past in Three Novels: Greek-Turkish Friendship, Nostalgia, and Religious Coexistence

Ist Teil von

• The New Ottoman Greece in History and Fiction, 2018, p.147-209

Ort / Verlag

Switzerland: Springer International Publishing AG

Erscheinungsjahr

2018

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Chapter 10.1007/978-3-319-93849-3_6 analyses three Greek historical novels published in 2004, 2005, and 2008, all of which deal with Greece’s Ottoman legacy in ways that challenge hitherto prevalent perceptions of this legacy. The chapter highlights the novels’ use of non-Greek protagonists as a means to develop a less ethnocentric historical consciousness yet without losing the devotion to Greek language and culture. The novels adopt nostalgia and friendship as literary tropes to create emotional engagement and cultural intimacy with a side of the Greek past that has been hitherto ignored or denounced. As the plots are all set in the late Ottoman period, modernization, Europeanization, and nationalism play a central role and point to evaluations of the contemporary epoch.