Between two worlds

Name: Between two worlds
ISBN: 9780520206007

sculpture by David Ruben Piqtoukun

av David Ruben Piqtoukun

4/5

(18 stemmer)

Først publisert: 1996
Forlag: Winnipeg Art Gallery
Språk: English

Reading Kafadar's book is not only reading a history of the Ottoman Empire, but it is remembering the complexity of history. Kafadar's book analyses the forces at play, their effects, and their results on the creation of the Ottoman Empire.

Despite its ostensible emphasis on describing the rise of the Ottoman Empire, Cemal Kafadar's Between Two Worlds actually spends more time examining the historiography of this era than the subject itself, and touches upon themes that impacted the state to the conquest of Constantinople and beyond. Arguing that traditional narratives of Ottoman origins remained unexamined for several decades after the 1940s, and that the recent critiques that have emerged are problematic, the author sets out to establish a firm understanding of the theories, and in particular the sources upon which they are based, that have defined the historiography of this period for nearly a century.

It's appalling what passes for "fiction" these days. Fresh off her success with the wan, anemic sophomore novel "Sing So Sweetly, Subtle Lotion", Beatrice Eunice offers up this puerile, pretentious garbage as some sort of loosely-defined art.