Sehnsucht nach Sinn: Literarische Semantisierung von Geschichte im zeitgenossischen turkischen Roman

Towards the end of the 20th century a new interest in the Ottoman and Seljuk past crystallized in Turkish fiction. In the process, not only an array of aspects connected with the "official", heroic-nationalist version of history were subjected to a critical revision, but new narrative and fictional forms of historical representation developed. Sehnsucht nach Sinn (Longing for Meaning) examines this literary-inspired new definition of history in dialogue with more recent theoretical approaches…