You Say ‘Classical,’ I Say ‘Imperial,’ Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off: Empire, Individual, and Encounter in Travel Narratives of the Ottoman Empire
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The literature of “encounter” has enriched our sense of who the Ottomans
were and how they were described by their various others. And although the notion of
encounter comprises interaction at the levels of group, commune, state, and empire,
it is most expressive when it presumes the individual – a person for whom these larger
entities are made manifest in the figures of individual personalities. This paper thus
takes as its subject the “telling” of individuals in Ottoman space by individuals coming from the spaces of the European Christian kings. I hope, thereby, to comment
on how the Ottoman individual was “told” in the context of imperial competition
and conversation, and to draw that individual off the page through compiling a set of
descriptors by which he or she was made “real” for the teller’s audience. I address the
idea of encounter and the (possible) transformation of that idea as it relates to ‘European’ encounters with the Ottoman citizen individual, using as examples three late
sixteenth and two eighteenth century travelers. Finally, I want to comment briefly on
periodization, the ways in which the eighteenth century may or may not be detached
from the preceding era when it comes to the genre(s) of encounter.
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Palmira Brummett
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Yayımlanma Tarihi
15 Nisan 2014
Gönderilme Tarihi
12 Haziran 2013
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Yayımlandığı Sayı
Yıl 2014 Cilt: 44 Sayı: 44