Description
Book SynopsisAn engaging discussion of how the concept of home inhabits the Turkish memory and imagination, becoming a muse that shapes personal and national identities.
Trade Review"This layered, intelligent, and sensitive study proves the existence of a tight relationship between the imagined Ottoman house and the society of the Turkish Republic... It illuminates the special place that a particular building type, now lost, can hold in the mind and heart of a whole culture, a whole nation that is struggling with modernity, history, and identity." Eleni Bastea, Professor of Architecture, University of New Mexico
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction. Welcome to the House
- Chapter 1. Bringing the Turkish House into Focus
- Chapter 2. The House Takes on the Weight of Historical Consciousness
- Chapter 3. How Fiction Positioned the Turkish House on a Memory Chain of Values
- Chapter 4. How Literature Is Spiritual Space, and How the Heart Is Superior to the Mind
- Chapter 5. The New Turkish Landscape and the Desire to Remember
- The Cast of Characters
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
