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Turning Turk

Author: D. Vitkus

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-04-30

Total Pages: 255

ISBN-13: 1137052929

Turning Turk looks at contact between the English and other cultures in the early modern Mediterranean, and analyzes the representation of that experience on the London stage. Vitkus's book demonstrates that the English encounter with exotic alterity, and the theatrical representations inspired by that encounter, helped to form the emergent identity of an English nation that was eagerly fantasizing about having an empire, but was still in the preliminary phase of its colonizing drive. Vitkus' research shows how plays about the multi-cultural Mediterranean participated in this process of identity formation, and how anxieties about religious conversion, foreign trade and miscegenation were crucial factors in the formation of that identity.

A Christian Turn'd Turk

Author: Robert Daborne

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2014-12-12

Total Pages: 162

ISBN-13: 9781503382459

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The true, though well-embellished, story of the seventeenth-century English celebrity pirate, John Ward (later Yusuf Rais), who shocked Jacobean England by converting to Islam in 1608.

Three Turk Plays from Early Modern England

Author: Daniel Vitkus

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Published: 2000-02-05

Total Pages: 386

ISBN-13: 9780231505284

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-- Greg Bak, Early Modern Literary Studies

The Ottoman Turks in English Heroic Plays

Author: Işıl Şahin Gülter

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2019-12-02

Total Pages: 193

ISBN-13: 1527544133

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Contesting the argument that Restoration-period drama referred almost exclusively to domestic social and political issues, this text interrogates the extent to which seventeenth century heroic plays justify and perpetuate stereotypical representations of the Ottoman Turks in Western discourse. It provides a comprehensive account of representation of “the Other” based on difference. Joining historical discussions ranging from the Ottoman Empire’s rise as a world power to the development of British imperial ideology, the book asserts that dramatic texts and production provide a rich and unexamined archive in which the issues of representation, difference, and cultural stereotyping are attendant on the emergence of imperial figure largely. This account not only deciphers representation of the Ottoman Turks based on simplification and stereotyping in dramatic representations, but also throws light on the most pressing political issues of seventeenth century England, including revolution, regicide, and restoration, dramatized in the guise of the Ottoman Turks and Ottoman history. The book’s attention to the Ottoman-related themes of a number of plays decisively redraws the map of Restoration drama.

Orhan Pamuk, Secularism and Blasphemy

Author: Erdağ M. Göknar

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 330

ISBN-13: 0415505372

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This book examines the literary politics of Orhan Pamuk's novels within the framework of contestations over "Turkishness," Islam, and secularization. Moving beyond a traditional study of literature, this book turns to literature to ask larger questions about Turkish history, identity, collective memory, and cultural practice. It concludes with an interview with Orhan Pamuk.

Commedia dell' Arte and the Mediterranean

Author: Erith Jaffe-Berg

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-03-09

Total Pages: 202

ISBN-13: 1317164016

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Drawing on published collections and also manuscripts from Mantuan archives, Commedia dell' arte and the Mediterranean locates commedia dell' arte as a performance form reflective of its cultural crucible in the Mediterranean. The study provides a broad perspective on commedia dell’ arte as an expression of the various cultural, gender and language communities in Italy during the early-modern period, and explores the ways in which the art form offers a platform for reflection on power and cultural exchange. While highlighting the prevalence of Mediterranean crossings in the scenarios of commedia dell' arte, this book examines the way in which actors embodied characters from across the wider Mediterranean region. The presence of Mediterranean minority groups such as Arabs, Armenians, Jews and Turks within commedia dell' arte is marked on stage and 'backstage' where they were collaborators in the creative process. In addition, gendered performances by the first female actors participated in 'staging' the Mediterranean by using the female body as a canvas for cartographical imaginings. By focusing attention on the various communities involved in the making of theatre, a central preoccupation of the book is to question the dynamics of 'exchange' as it materialized within a spectrum inclusive of both cultural collaboration but also of taxation and coercion.

Turning Turk

Author: D. Vitkus

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Published: 2003-11-17

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 9780312294526

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Mr. Pepys and the Turk

Author: Andrew C. Rouse

Publisher: SPECHEL

Published: 2014-07-08

Total Pages: 145

ISBN-13: 9630894556

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“Mr. Pepys and The Turk” is SPECHEL’s first inroad into publication. In line with the mission embodied in its name, this book and subsequent publications will be available in ebook and print-on-demand form, making it considerably more accessible than if it were solely a physical object. “Mr Pepys and Turk” tells of English popular notions of the “Turk” through history, centring upon the diary entries of civil servant Samuel Pepys (1633-1703) and the street ballads which he loved to collect. The author’s fascination with this subject stems from his dual life as an academic/folk singer, but also from having lived and worked most of his adult life in Hungary’s only city with two domed mosques, a minaret and other Turkish remains. Hungary is a country where the Turk gets bad press through incomplete and biased formal education and popular conception, yet one of the most charming children’s rhymes of which (included here in the author’s translation) features Mehmet the Turk. Unlike Hungary, England was not invaded by the Turk, unless you count a very brief visit to the Cornish coast, the only surviving trace of which is England’s oldest public house called “The Turk’s Head”. Yet popular misconceptions abound in both cultures through various media, including a seventeenth-century English street ballad about a battle in Hungary between the European forces and the Ottoman Empire. Here, then, is the “Turk”, not a historical man but a popular concept – lustful, terrible, but also poor and innocent as English popular notions fashion and refashion him through time and perspective.

Living in the Ottoman Realm

Author: Christine Isom-Verhaaren

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 2016-04-11

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 0253019486

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Living in the Ottoman Realm brings the Ottoman Empire to life in all of its ethnic, religious, linguistic, and geographic diversity. The contributors explore the development and transformation of identity over the long span of the empire's existence. They offer engaging accounts of individuals, groups, and communities by drawing on a rich array of primary sources, some available in English translation for the first time. These materials are examined with new methodological approaches to gain a deeper understanding of what it meant to be Ottoman. Designed for use as a course text, each chapter includes study questions and suggestions for further reading.

Traffic and Turning

Author: Jonathan Burton

Publisher: University of Delaware Press

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13: 9780874139136

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It will be of interest to all those interested in questions of early modern contact history, English relations with Islam and the East, English theater history, and cultural politics."--BOOK JACKET.