“I am the Granddaughter of the Ottomans”: Gender, Aesthetics and Agency in Neo-Ottoman Imaginaries – An Introduction

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“I am the Granddaughter of the Ottomans” : Gender, Aesthetics and Agency in Neo-Ottoman Imaginaries – An Introduction. / Raudvere, Catharina; Onur, Petek.

Neo-Ottoman Imaginaries in Contemporary Turkey: Gendered Discourses, Agencies, and Visions. ed. / Catharina Raudvere; Petek Onur. Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. p. 1-32 (Modernity, Memory and Identity in South-East Europe).

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Harvard

Raudvere, C & Onur, P 2022, “I am the Granddaughter of the Ottomans”: Gender, Aesthetics and Agency in Neo-Ottoman Imaginaries – An Introduction. in C Raudvere & P Onur (eds), Neo-Ottoman Imaginaries in Contemporary Turkey: Gendered Discourses, Agencies, and Visions. Palgrave Macmillan, Modernity, Memory and Identity in South-East Europe, pp. 1-32. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-08023-4_1

APA

Raudvere, C., & Onur, P. (2022). “I am the Granddaughter of the Ottomans”: Gender, Aesthetics and Agency in Neo-Ottoman Imaginaries – An Introduction. In C. Raudvere, & P. Onur (Eds.), Neo-Ottoman Imaginaries in Contemporary Turkey: Gendered Discourses, Agencies, and Visions (pp. 1-32). Palgrave Macmillan. Modernity, Memory and Identity in South-East Europe https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-08023-4_1

Vancouver

Raudvere C, Onur P. “I am the Granddaughter of the Ottomans”: Gender, Aesthetics and Agency in Neo-Ottoman Imaginaries – An Introduction. In Raudvere C, Onur P, editors, Neo-Ottoman Imaginaries in Contemporary Turkey: Gendered Discourses, Agencies, and Visions. Palgrave Macmillan. 2022. p. 1-32. (Modernity, Memory and Identity in South-East Europe). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-08023-4_1

Author

Raudvere, Catharina ; Onur, Petek. / “I am the Granddaughter of the Ottomans” : Gender, Aesthetics and Agency in Neo-Ottoman Imaginaries – An Introduction. Neo-Ottoman Imaginaries in Contemporary Turkey: Gendered Discourses, Agencies, and Visions. editor / Catharina Raudvere ; Petek Onur. Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. pp. 1-32 (Modernity, Memory and Identity in South-East Europe).

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