Bound Together : The Secularization of Turkey's Literary Fields and the Western Promise of Freedom

Baris Buyukokutan

ISBN 10: 0472132806 / ISBN 13: 9780472132805

Published by The University Of Michigan Press Dez 2021, 2021

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Neuware - Bound Together takes a new look at twentieth-century Turkey, asking what it will take for Turkish women and men to regain their lost freedoms, and what the Turkish case means for the prospects of freedom and democracy elsewhere. Contrasting the country's field of poetry, where secularization was the joint work of pious and nonpious people, with that of the novel, this book inquires into the nature of western-nonwestern difference. Turkey's poets were more fortunate than its novelists for two reasons. Poets were slightly better at developing the idea of the autonomy of art from politics. While piety was a marker of political identity everywhere, poets were better able than novelists to bracket political differences when assessing their peers as the country was bitterly polarized politically and as the century wore on. Second, and more important, poets of all stripes were more connected to each other than were novelists. Their greater ability to find and keep one another in coffeehouses and literary journals made it less likely for prospective cross-aisle partnerships to remain untested propositions.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Bound Together : The Secularization of Turkey's Literary Fields and the Western Promise of Freedom
• Publisher: The University Of Michigan Press Dez 2021
• Publication Date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0472132806
• ISBN 13: 9780472132805
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 236W x 156H x 23D millimeters 236 millimeters width by 156 millimeters height by 23 millimeters depth
• Weight: 434 grams

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Synopsis

Bound Together takes a new look at twentieth-century Turkey, asking what it will take for Turkish women and men to regain their lost freedoms, and what the Turkish case means for the prospects of freedom and democracy elsewhere. Contrasting the country’s field of poetry, where secularization was the joint work of pious and nonpious people, with that of the novel, this book inquires into the nature of western-nonwestern difference. Turkey’s poets were more fortunate than its novelists for two reasons. Poets were slightly better at developing the idea of the autonomy of art from politics. While piety was a marker of political identity everywhere, poets were better able than novelists to bracket political differences when assessing their peers as the country was bitterly polarized politically and as the century wore on. Second, and more important, poets of all stripes were more connected to each other than were novelists. Their greater ability to find and keep one another in coffeehouses and literary journals made it less likely for prospective cross-aisle partnerships to remain untested propositions.

About the Author

Barış Büyükokutan is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Koç University