Here, Jayne L. Warner has created a unique biographical tapestry that illuminates not only the life of one of Turkey's leading literary and cultural authorities, but also the emergence of a republic in his native country, and sheds new light on the history of one of the world's great cities. Sumptuously illustrated throughout with evocative period pictures of Istanbul, Turkish Nomad tells the extraordinary life story of this poet, thinker, and diplomat. As a young boy, Halman surveyed the last vestiges of the Ottoman Empire, walked through the ruins of Byzantium, and grew up in the modern nation created by the charismatic Mustafa Kemal Ataturk. Talat S. Halman would go on to serve the republic as its first minister of culture. The more than four decades Halman lived primarily in the United States are not overlooked but are used to discuss how his ideas developed as he taught at leading unversities-Princeton, Columbia, New York University-and introduced Americans to Turkish literature and culture through his translations and public lectures. We In the Turkish Nomad we follow the literary, scholastic, and journalistic journey of a restless writer, who might best be described by the title of one of his books, The Turkish Muse, his 2006 collection of literary reviews tracing the development of Turkish literature during the Turkish Republic.
By:
Jayne L. Warner
Imprint: I B TAURIS
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 203mm,
Width: 279mm,
Spine: 25mm
Weight: 2.522kg
ISBN: 9781784536435
ISBN 10: 1784536431
Pages: 432
Publication Date: 13 November 2017
Audience:
General/trade
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ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Contents Note on Turkish Spelling and Names vii Principal Family Members viii Preface 1 Maps 6 Chapter 1 Relatives and More Relatives 15 Chapter 2 Independence and Modernization: Families in Transition 48 Chapter 3 The Early Years: A Childhood Apart 78 Chapter 4 New York—Here I Come! The Turbulent ’50s 118 Chapter 5 A Turkish Marine 138 Chapter 6 A Career for Talat 148 Chapter 7 From Academic to Columnist—and Beyond (1965–1971) 154 Chapter 8 Statesman: “Prophet of a Turkish Renaissance” (1971) 180 Chapter 9 A Literary Life (1972–1980) 214 Chapter 10 Ambassador for Cultural Affairs (1980–1982) 238 Chapter 11 From Public Lecturer to UNESCO (1982–1996) 250 Chapter 12 An Abiding Love of the Theater 294 Chapter 13 Turkey Calls Again (1996–2014) 308 Chapter 14 Islam, Ataturk’s Republic, and Talat Halman 352 Chapter 15 A Portrait 362 epilogue “My Year of Death” 374 Chapter Notes 376 Chronology 395 Books by Talat S. Halman 398 Presidents, Republic of Turkey 403 Prime Ministers, Republic of Turkey 403 Ministers of Culture (Culture and Tourism), Republic of Turkey 405 List of Maps and Illustrations 406 Turkish Journals and Newspapers 417 Acknowledgments 418 Index 420 Family Treefollowing page 448
Jayne L. Warner is director of research at the Institute for Aegean Prehistory in Greenwich, CT. She holds a B.A. in classics, an M.A. in ancient history, and, from Bryn Mawr College, a Ph.D. in Near Eastern and Anatolian archaeology. Her publications include Elmal -Karata II: The Early Bronze Age Village of Karata . Warner has served as assistant editor for the American School of Classical Studies at Athens and executive director of the Poetry Society of America (New York). She has also served as director of the American Turkish Society (New York) and director of the New York Office of the Board of Trustees of Robert College of Istanbul. Warner is Associate Editor of Sleeping in the Forest: Stories and Poems by Sait Faik; Nightingales and Pleasure Gardens: Turkish Love Poems; A Brave New Quest: 100 Modern Turkish Poems; and Popular Turkish Love Lyrics and Folk Legends, and co-editor of An Anthology of Modern Turkish Drama. She is the editor of Cultural Horizons: A Festschrift in Honor of Talat S. Halman; The Turkish Muse: Views and Reviews, 1960s-1990s; Rapture and Revolution: Essays on Turkish Literature; and A Millennium of Turkish Literature: A Concise History.
