Fear and Loathing in “Gavur” Izmir

Emotions in Early Republican Memories of the Greek Occupation (1919–22)

Datos Bibliográficos

ID8966932
AutoresEllinor Morack (0000-0002-6798-0803, University of Bamberg, autor de correspondencia)
Año2017
Volumen49
Número1
Páginas71-89
Fecha de publicación2017-01-20
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaInternational Journal Middle East Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0020-7438 • E-ISSN: 1471-6380
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0020743816001148
OpenAlexW2578216155
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas4
Referencias citadas46

Based on a series of recollections published between January and April 1926 in the Izmir-based daily newspaper Ahenk (Harmony), this article explores how individual Muslim Turks remembered their emotional responses to the Greek occupation of that city (May 1919–September 1922). Analyzing these recollections, it considers why certain events were remembered while others were almost completely left out. By studying how Muslim Turks described their feelings towards the occupying forces, local non-Muslims, and the eventually victorious Turkish army, the article makes an initial contribution to the history of emotions in early republican Turkey. I argue that the composition and consumption of memories were avenues for connecting emotionally to the Turkish nationalist project. This finding challenges the widespread notion that the early republican period was characterized by collective amnesia of the immediate past, and contributes to the growing body of scholarship on popular participation in early republican nationalism

Aesthetics · Art · Feeling · Harmony (color · Literature · Media studies · Nationalism · Newspaper · Period (music · Political science · Politics · Scholarship · Sociology · Turkish · Visual arts · History · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology · Turkey's Politics and Society · World Wars: History, Literature, and Impact