summer threads

-Hidayet Romanları: This topic from the book section of Radikal- and how "the books of conversion- or seeing the light"change according to the social changes of the time.
- Another topic that can be tackled is the comparison between mesnevis and romances.
-Also Partha Chatterjee, describing politics as arising in the space where law does not work-- only when law does not work, is there occasion for politics. Such as the shanty towns being fields of politics par excellence, for they do not abide by the law of the land in the first place, then it is only through politics that they can interact with the state. and a wonderful Turkish word for subaltern: maduniyet
- From Roni Margulies, the iconography of Jewish youth, wonderful contrasting pictures, one, a group of beautiful, happy looking Israeli youths triumphant, muscular, at the time of the victory of 48. Contrasted with a picture by Marc Chagall, the bearded, hunchbacked Jew with a staff and the belongings on his back. Never again, Margulies says, is the motto of Jewish strategist, never again will you see the Jew being oppressed, all you will see is the strong, triumphant.
"This image, which we have got used to since 1948 is the most frequently seen image of the triumphant soldier- next to that of the American one"
- The failure of the modernization project, the abandonment rather. It has been festgestellt that these peoples cannot be "modernized", that they are doomed to reside in their medieval darkness, it's us and them, and there's no way "them" can be like us.
-women- alcohol- and modernism. the bourgeoisie inventing the anti-alcohol movement, so that they workers be more sober to do more work. There's a footnote or even section lurking there for Rhys
Mary Douglas (Constructive Drinking), Catherine Gilbert
Murdock (Domesticating Drink)
-Fikret Mualla, his description of a republican Turkey in Der Querschnitt in July 1928, would've been a good footnote to Pamuk