Background
Halide Edip Adıvar was born in 1884 in Istanbul as the daughter of Mehmet Edip bey, private treasurer of Sultan Abdulhamit II, later director of the Régie Française de Tabac at Yanina and Bursa.
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Halide Adivar Edib (1882-1964) was one of Turkey's leading feminists in the Young Turk and early Republican period. In Memoirs, Edib's account of her private life provides a unique example of a woman's individual and personal struggle for emancipation and gender equality.
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This edition of Halide Edib Adivar's Memoirs, prefaced with Sibel Erol's excellent introduction, is important and timely. When stereotypes of women in the Muslim world abound, Halide's memoirs remind us of the courage and dedication of "foremothers" who struggled for emancipation at both personal and national levels. These memoirs open a window on the search for personal expression of a woman caught up in the oppressive dynamics of her polygamous households (parental and marital), and the travails of national liberation and nation-building in Turkey, in which she played an active role. Halide speaks to us with an urgency which now cries out to be heard more than ever. Halide Edib's memoirs are indispensable reading for anyone interested in the history of childhood and education in the late Ottoman Empire. Edib worked to spread public education, instituting schools in Istanbul and in the Arab provinces during World War I. Her account is vibrant and direct, off ering an excellent witness to this critical period during which the Empire collapsed. Halide Edib lived through the most turbulent times in modern Turkish history. Most unusually for a woman of her day, she did so not only as an eyewitness, but as an active political participant. She was on close personal terms with powerful leaders such as Talat Pasha and Ataturk, but retained a critical and independent mind. All this gives her memoirs their unique character. The book provides new light on the Ottoman Empire and the Turkish nation.
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This is part I of the seminal novel by Halide Edip Adivar, a writer and feminist who fought for Turkish independence in Ataturk's army. She originally published it in English as The Clown and His Daughter in 1935. She then translated it into Turkish and published that version as Sinekli Bakkal in 1936. This is a translation of the Turkish version; the translator has not seen the English version. It is a nostalgic and loving look at the declining years of the Ottoman empire under the Red Sultan, Abdulhamid II, as seen through the adventures of Tevfik, the Clown of the title, who plays the female role, the Zenne, in the traditional Turkish theater art form, the orta oyunu, related to commedia dell'arte, as well as doing shadow puppets, or Karagoz. His daughter, Rabia, is trained by her grandfather, a fire and brimstone Imam, to sing the response in the mosque, but she also learns the art of love songs from the cruel but cultured Justice Minister, Selim Pasha. And there are many more characters ... the defrocked priest Peregrini, the Circassian concubine Kararya, the dervish sage Vehbi Dede ...
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Atesten Gomlek, cepheden, romanda anlatilan kisilerle omuz omuza yasamis birinden gelen bir yapit. Kurtulus Savasi'nin atesten gomleginin icinden cikmis bir roman. Halide Edib Adivar, her birini yakindan tanidigi roman kisilerini, yani silah arkadaslarini ictenlikle, cagina ve yasanan aci olaylara sorumlulukla taniklik ederek anlatiyor. Bagimsizlik savasimizi butun gercekligi ve canliligiyla anlatan belki de en onemli roman, Atesten Gomlek.Ihtilal ve isyan gunlerinden beri koza, kurt, kelebek devirleri tetkik edilen mahlukat gibi Sakarya silih arkadaslarimin "Atesten Gomlek"te birkac solgun aksini Istanbul, ihtilal ve ordu gunlerinden alip kigit ustune koymaya calistim. Istedigim gibi olmadigi icin silih arkadaslarimdan af dilemek isterdim. Bize onlar ilham ettiler.Ince Kapak: Sayfa Sayisi: 256Baski Yili: 2016e-Kitap: Sayfa Sayisi: 201Baski Yili: 2007Dili: TurkceYayinevi: Can Yayinlari
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Halide Edip Adıvar was born in 1884 in Istanbul as the daughter of Mehmet Edip bey, private treasurer of Sultan Abdulhamit II, later director of the Régie Française de Tabac at Yanina and Bursa.
Although Edip did not attend primary school, she received private lessons from well known personalities in the field of social sciences, philosophy, and mathematics. In 1901 she graduated from the American Girls College in Istanbul.
After 1907 Edip’s articles were published in the newspaper Tanin and other reviews under the name of Halide Salih. From 1910 she taught history and concentrated her attention on issues of education. During World War I she was formally invited to Syria where she organized the public instruction system and served as inspector of the girls' secondary schools in Beirut and Damascus. In 1918 Edip was appointed professor of Western literature at the University of Istanbul.
Following the armistice Edip enthusiastically adopted the peace proposals of President Woodrow Wilson and became an activist in favor of an American mandate. After realizing that none of the defeated nations adhered to Wilson's principles, she changed her mind and espoused the nationalistic cause proclaimed by Mustafa Kemal, later Ataturk. After the occupation of Istanbul in March 1919 by the British, she fled to Anatolia to join Mustafa Kemal's forces. The sultan's government condemned to death in absentia Mustafa Kemal and five of his closest collaborators; one among the condemned was Edip.
After joining the nationalist forces in Anatolia, the young woman writer began to work at the general staff headquarters; later she was moved to the Western front. In recognition of her military services she was promoted to the rank of sergeant. After the establishment of the Turkish Republic, Edip, her husband, and like-minded friends founded the Progressive Republican Party as the major opposition party. Following a ban on this party in 1925, the Adivars went abroad and lived from 1926 to 1939 in Europe and the United States.
In 1928-1929 Edip was invited by Columbia University as guest professor. She taught courses on the intellectual history of the Near East and on contemporary Turkish literature. In 1935 Mahatma Gandhi invited her to India, where she taught in New Delhi. From 1940 on Halide headed the chair of English literature at Istanbul University. After the transition to a multiparty system, she served one term in parliament as an independent member from Izmir (1950 - 1954).
The most important characteristic of Halide Edip's novels is the broad social framework she built around her stories. Without neglecting the psychological dimensions, her main emphasis was on providing the reader with an insight into the major social issues of the time. Among her heroes women played an important role. In her writings one came across nationalistic women, modernized women, women with strong personalities, women rising up against oppression, and idealistic women striving to educate the masses. Her male heroes were much more statue-like; they lacked energy and drive.
Her best known novel, The Clown and His Daughter, was first written in English, later rewritten in Turkish. The first phase of her novel-writing reflected excitement and observation (1908 - 1928); the second phase attempted to achieve a cultural synthesis (1928 - 1952). In her two volumes on the history of English literature emphasis was placed upon the climatic, historical, social, and political factors which influenced the literary products. Halide Edip also wrote a successful detective story-the Crime of Vol Palace-and a number of short stories and essays. Her memoirs reflected the atmosphere of her early childhood in a typical Eastern setting as well as the problems she had to face upon confronting Western civilization.
( This work has been selected by scholars as being cultur...)
(This is part I of the seminal novel by Halide Edip Adivar...)
( This edition of Halide Edib Adivar's Memoirs, prefaced ...)
(Halide Adivar Edib (1882-1964) was one of Turkey's leadin...)
(Atesten Gomlek, cepheden, romanda anlatilan kisilerle omu...)
In 1901 Edip married the mathematician Salih Riza bey. They had two boys: Ayetullah and Hikmetullah. When her husband decided to take a second wife, she asked for a divorce in 1910. In 1918 she married Adnan Adivar, a well-known professor of medicine who later became minister of health under Mustafa Kemal's leadership.