Overview
- Explores historical and literary narratives of the Ottoman past in contemporary Greek society and culture
- Places the development of new Greek national identities within an international context, taking account of changing geopolitical power balances in Europe and Turkey’s changing roles since 2000
- Takes an interdisciplinary approach to heritage, literary and cultural studies, in order to offer new insights into how the Ottoman past continues to shape national identities
Part of the book series: Modernity, Memory and Identity in South-East Europe (MOMEIDSEE)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book explores the increasing interest in the Ottoman past in contemporary Greek society and its cultural sphere. It considers how the changing geo-political balances in South-East Europe since 1989 have offered Greek society an occasion to re-examine the transition from cultural diversity in the imperial context, to efforts to homogenize culture in the subsequent national contexts. This study shows how contemporary immigration and better relations with Turkey led to new directions in historiography, fiction and popular culture in the beginning of the twenty-first century. It focuses on how narratives about cultural co-existence under Ottoman rule are used as a prism of national self-awareness and argues that the interpretations of Greece’s Ottoman legacy are part of the cultural battles over national identity and belonging. The book examines these narratives within the context of tension between East and West and, not least, Greece’s place in Europe.
Reviews
“This excellent book explores contemporary Greece’s complex relationship with its contested historical past. Trine Stauning Willert brings together memory studies, public history and Modern Greek Studies, to tell a story which becomes even more topical in a global era of radicalised attitudes against cultural diversity.” (Christina Koulouri, Panteion University, Athens, Greece)
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Trine Stauning Willert is an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham’s Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies, UK. Previously she was Assistant Professor in Modern Greek Studies at the University of Copenhagen where she was a member of the research centre ‘The Many Roads in Modernity: South-East Europe and its Ottoman Roots’.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The New Ottoman Greece in History and Fiction
Authors: Trine Stauning Willert
Series Title: Modernity, Memory and Identity in South-East Europe
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-93849-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-93848-6Published: 14 September 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-06730-4Published: 31 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-93849-3Published: 04 September 2018
Series ISSN: 2523-7985
Series E-ISSN: 2523-7993
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 225
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Memory Studies, European History, European Literature, Cultural History, Popular Culture