Childhood in the late Ottoman Empire and after /
edited by Benjamin C. Fortna.
- 1 online resource (xvii, 285 pages) : illustrations some color.
- The Ottoman Empire and its heritage ; v. 59 .
- The Ottoman Empire and its Heritage 59. Middle East and Islamic Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2016, ISBN: 9789004303935. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preliminary Material / Introduction: The Western Concept of Childhood / The Interplay between Modernization and the Reconstruction of Childhood: Romantic Interpretations of the Child in Early Republican Era Popular Magazines, 1924–1950 / Child Poverty and Emerging Children’s Rights Discourse in Early Republican Turkey / Nation-Building and Childhood in Early Twentieth Century Egypt / Being a Girl in Ottoman Novels / Children into Adults, Peasants into Patriots: The Army and Nation-Building in Serbia and Bulgaria (1878–1912) / A Triangle of Regrets: Training Ottoman Children in Germany During the First World War / Bonbons and Bayonets: Mixed Messages of Childhood in the Late Ottoman Empire and the Early Turkish Republic / Locating Remembrance: Regimes of Time and Cultures of Autobiography in Post-Independence Romania / Presenting Ottoman Childhoods in Post-Ottoman Autobiographies / Escaping to Girlhood in Late Ottoman Istanbul: Demetra Vaka’s and Selma Ekrem’s Childhood Memories / Index / Benjamin C. Fortna -- Laurence Brockliss -- Nazan Çiçek -- Kathryn Libal -- Heidi Morrison -- Elif Akşit -- Naoum Kaytchev -- Nazan Maksudyan -- Benjamin C. Fortna -- Alex Drace-Francis -- Philipp Wirtz -- Duygu Köksal -- Benjamin C. Fortna.
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This volume explores the variety of ways in which childhood was experienced, lived and remembered in the late Ottoman Empire and its successor states. The period of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was a time of rapid change, and the history of childhood reflects the impact of new expectations, lived realities and national responsibilities on the youngest members of societies undergoing monumental change because of ideological, wartime and demographic shifts. Drawing on comparisons both within the Balkans, Turkey and the Arab lands and with Western Europe and beyond, the chapters investigate the many ways in which upheaval and change affected the youth. Particular attention is paid to changing conceptions of childhood, gender roles and newly dominant national imperatives. Contributors include: Elif Akşit, Laurence Brockliss, Nazan Çiçek, Alex Drace-Francis, Benjamin C. Fortna, Naoum Kaytchev, Duygu Köksal, Kathryn Libal, Nazan Maksudyan, Heidi Morrison, and Philipp Wirtz. This title, in its entirety, is available online in Open Access.