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Becoming Turkish: Nationalist Reforms and Cultural Negotiations in Early Republican Turkey

Becoming Turkish deepens our understanding of the modernist nation-building processes in post-Ottoman Turkey through a rare perspective that stresses social and cultural dimensions and everyday negotiations of the Kemalist reforms. Yilmaz asks how the reforms were mediated on the ground and how ordinary citizens received, reacted to, and experienced them. She traces the experiences of the subaltern as well as the experiences of the elites and the mediators in the overall narrative-highlighting the relevance of class, gender, location, and urban and rural differences while also revealing the importance of nonideological, social, and psychological factors such as childhood and generations.

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Becoming Turkish: Nationalist Reforms and Cultural Negotiations in Early Republican Turkey

Becoming Turkish deepens our understanding of the modernist nation-building processes in post-Ottoman Turkey through a rare perspective that stresses social and cultural dimensions and everyday negotiations of the Kemalist reforms. Yilmaz asks how the reforms were mediated on the ground and how ordinary citizens received, reacted to, and experienced them. She traces the experiences of the subaltern as well as the experiences of the elites and the mediators in the overall narrative-highlighting the relevance of class, gender, location, and urban and rural differences while also revealing the importance of nonideological, social, and psychological factors such as childhood and generations.

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Becoming Turkish: Nationalist Reforms and Cultural Negotiations in Early Republican Turkey

Becoming Turkish: Nationalist Reforms and Cultural Negotiations in Early Republican Turkey

by Hale Yilmaz
Becoming Turkish: Nationalist Reforms and Cultural Negotiations in Early Republican Turkey

Becoming Turkish: Nationalist Reforms and Cultural Negotiations in Early Republican Turkey

by Hale Yilmaz

Overview

Becoming Turkish deepens our understanding of the modernist nation-building processes in post-Ottoman Turkey through a rare perspective that stresses social and cultural dimensions and everyday negotiations of the Kemalist reforms. Yilmaz asks how the reforms were mediated on the ground and how ordinary citizens received, reacted to, and experienced them. She traces the experiences of the subaltern as well as the experiences of the elites and the mediators in the overall narrative-highlighting the relevance of class, gender, location, and urban and rural differences while also revealing the importance of nonideological, social, and psychological factors such as childhood and generations.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780815633174
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Publication date: 04/15/2013
Series: Modern Intellectual and Political History of the Middle East
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 352
Product dimensions: 6.20(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Hale Yilmaz is Assistant Professor of History at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. One of her articles has appeared in the International Journal of Middle East Studies, and she has written a chapter for the edited volume, Women's Memory: The Problem of Sources from the Ottoman Period to Our Times.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations vii

Acknowledgments ix

A Note on Spelling and Pronunciation xv

Introduction 1

1 Dressing the Nation's Citizens: Men's Clothing Reforms in the Early Republic 22

2 Women, Politics, and the Culture of Dress in the Making of a New Turkish Nation 78

3 Language: A New Turkish Script for a New and Literate Turkish Nation 139

4 Celebrating National Holidays 179

Conclusion 220

Notes 229

References 295

Index 319

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