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Ottoman literature as Mediterranean literature: travel, imperialism, and comparison in Hac Yolunda by Cenab Şahabeddin

dc.contributor.departmentDepartment of Comparative Literature
dc.contributor.kuauthorArslan, Ceylan Ceyhun
dc.contributor.schoolcollegeinstituteCollege of Social Sciences and Humanities
dc.date.accessioned2024-11-09T22:56:06Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.description.abstractThe Mediterranean did not receive enough attention in research and scholarship on Ottoman literature, which has often been studied either as the precursor of modern Turkish literature or as a part of Islamic Middle Eastern literatures. Likewise, Ottoman literature did not receive significant attention in those branches of Mediterranean studies that have foregrounded interactions between Europe and the Maghreb. This article calls for an examination of representations of the Mediterranean in Ottoman texts, as well as the envisioning of Ottoman literature as Mediterranean literature. As a case study, I will be analysing a late Ottoman travelogue, the Hac Yolunda (On the Hajj Route; 1909) by Cenab Şahabeddin (1870-1934), a pioneering figure in Ottoman literature. I argue that the Mediterranean as a heuristic device can orient critics of Ottoman literature toward comparative and theoretical approaches that engage with fundamental debates in postcolonial studies and world literature. Copyright © 2019 Mediterranean Institute, University of Malta.
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dc.description.sponsoredbyTubitakEuN/A
dc.description.volume28
dc.identifier.issn1016-3476
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dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14288/7317
dc.keywordsCenab Şahabeddin
dc.keywordsHac Yolunda
dc.keywordsMediterranean literature
dc.keywordsOrientalism
dc.keywordsOttoman literature
dc.keywordsTravel writings
dc.keywordsWorld literature
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherUniversity of Malta Mediterranean Institute
dc.relation.ispartofJournal of Mediterranean Studies
dc.subjectLiterature
dc.titleOttoman literature as Mediterranean literature: travel, imperialism, and comparison in Hac Yolunda by Cenab Şahabeddin
dc.typeJournal Article
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