Hibbitt, R orcid.org/0000-0002-6480-9920 and Ulu, B (2021) Double palimpsest: History and myth in the poetry of the Gallipoli campaign. Journal of European Studies, 51 (3-4). pp. 273-291. ISSN 0047-2441
Abstract
The Ottoman defeat of the British and French imperial forces during the Gallipoli campaign of 1915, known in Turkish as the Çanakkale Wars, had already shown how the theatres of war would extend beyond Europe. While much of the poetry in English that came from Gallipoli is well known in the Anglophone world, the Turkish poetry from Çanakkale is less well known outside Turkey itself. This article analyses selected Gallipoli poems written in both languages in order to show how they had similar recourse to overlapping narratives of history and myth in their efforts to place the experience of war within a wider transhistorical and transcultural framework. By reflecting on the different uses of this double palimpsest, it aims to show how a transnational and transcultural approach to memorial culture can develop our understanding of how the Great War was written.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © The Author(s) 2021. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
Keywords: | empire, English war poetry, history, memory, myth, religion, Turkish war poetry |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > School of Languages Cultures & Societies (Leeds) > French (Leeds) The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > School of Languages Cultures & Societies (Leeds) > Language Centre (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 15 Jul 2021 08:56 |
Last Modified: | 28 Feb 2025 16:29 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | SAGE Publications |
Identification Number: | 10.1177/00472441211033411 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:176173 |