Book Review: Imagined Communities in Greece and Turkey: Trauma and the Population Exchanges under Atatürk

In addition to a life marked by the fear of violence and sudden death created by more than ten years of constant war, their legal identity was transformed at the stroke of a pen from one based on confession to one primarily defined by nationalist criteria.Bedlek's analysis is based on a wide ra...

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Published in:Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies 2018, Vol.42 (1), p.179
Main Author: Pelt, Mogens
Format: Review
Language:English
Subjects:
20th century
Ataturk, Kemal (1881-1938)
Christian Islamic relations
Christians
Church & state
Citizenship
Historiography
Muslims
Novels
Politics
Refugees
Religious orthodoxy
Society
Trauma
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Summary:In addition to a life marked by the fear of violence and sudden death created by more than ten years of constant war, their legal identity was transformed at the stroke of a pen from one based on confession to one primarily defined by nationalist criteria.Bedlek's analysis is based on a wide range of sources and input from history and social science, but her main focus is on three novels, Farwell Anatolia, by the Greek author Dido Sotiriou, Birds without Wings by the British writer Louis de Bernières and Emanet Ceyiz: Mübadele Insanlari (The Entrusted Trousseau: Peoples of the Exchange) by the Turkish writer Kemal Yalcin.True to this understanding, she seeks the causes for the break-down of inter-communality in politics and acts of violence intended to destroy it by outside actors, whether in the service of Greek and Turkish nationalism or great power interests.
ISSN:0307-0131
1749-625X
DOI:10.1017/byz.2017.29