The New Ottoman Greece in History and Fiction

• Main Author: Willert, Trine Stauning (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Modernity, Memory and Identity in South-East Europe,
• Subjects: Historiography.; Europe-History.; European literature.; Civilization-History.; Popular Culture.; Memory Studies.; European History.; European Literature.; Cultural History.; Popular Culture .

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 th...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction - The New Ottoman Greece: A Heritage in Search of Identity and Inheritors
• 2. New Approaches to the Ottoman Legacy in Historiography, Education, and Music Studies
• 3. Fearing Neo-Ottomanism: Counter-discourses and Reactions to the 'New Ottoman Greece'
• 4. Cultivating Osmanalgia: Intersections of History and Fiction in Thessaloniki
• 5. Narrating the Nation and its (Ottoman) Legacy: The Greek Historical Novel and the Role of Fiction Writers
• 6. Appropriating the Ottoman Past in Three Novels: Greek-Turkish Friendship, Nostalgia and Religious Co-existence
• 7. Epilogue - Ottoman Greece from 1980 to 2018.