 | Routledge Handbook on Turkish Literature This handbook provides a comprehensive overview of Turkish literature within both a local and global context. Across eight thematic sections a collection of subject experts use close readings of literature materials to provide a critical survey of the main issues and topics within the literature. The chapters provide analysis on a wide range of genres and text types, including novels, poetry, religious texts and drama, with works studied ranging from the fourteenth century right up to the present day. Utilising such a historic scope allows the volume to be read across cultures and time, while simultaneously contextualising and investigating how modern Turkish literature interacts with world literature, and finds its place within it. Collectively, the authors challenge the national literary historiography by replacing the Ottoman Turkish literature in the Anatolian civilizations with its plurality of cultures. They also seek to overcome the institutional and theoretical shortcomings within current study of such works, suggesting new approaches and methods for the study of Turkish literature. The Routledge Handbook on Turkish Literature marks a new departure in the reading and studying of Turkish literature. It will be a vital resource for those studying Literature, Middle East Studies, Turkish and Ottoman history, social sciences, and political science. Didem Havlioğlu is a literary historian working on women and gender in the Ottoman intellectual culture. She has published several articles both in Turkish and English. Her book Mihri Hatun: Performance, Gender-bending and Subversion in Early Modern Ottoman Intellectual History (2017), introduces Mihri Hatun (circa 1460-1515), the first woman writer in Ottoman history whose work survived in manuscript copies and contextualizes her work in the early modern intellectual culture. She is currently an Associate Professor of the Practice, teaching in the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at Duke University. Zeynep Uysal is an Associate professor of modern Turkish Literature at Boğaziçi University. She received her B.A and M.A from the Department of Turkish Language and Literature at Boğaziçi University. She completed her PHD degree on Modern Turkish Literature at Marmara University. As a visiting scholar, she taught modern Turkish Literature and gave public lectures in the Oriental Institute at the University of Oxford between 2001-2003. She published a book entitled Olağanüstü Masaldan Çağdaş Anlatıya: Muhayyelât-ı Aziz Efendi [From Marvellous Tales to Modern Narratives: Aziz Efendi's Imaginations ] in 2006. She edited a book, entitled Edebiyatın Omzundaki Melek: Edebiyatın Tarihle İlişkisi Üzerine Yazılar, about the relationship between history and literature in 2011. Her recent book, Metruk Ev , on the leading modern Turkish writer Halit Ziya Uşaklıgil was published in 2014. She has also written extensively on various issues in modern Turkish literature, including the relationship between literature and space, literature and history, literature and nationalism in leading academic journals. |
