Fortna Benjamin C. Learning to Read in the Late Ottoman Empire and the Early Turkish Republic

Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. — 263 p.List of FiguresAcknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Note on Transliteration, Dates and Surnames
Introduction: Reading Empire, Reading Republic
Chapter overview
The Ottoman/Turkish case in comparative perspective
Reading, change and continuity from empire to republic
Reading Represented
Depictions of reading: Changing environments
Textbooks and magazines
Modeling reading
Context and Content
The religious and the secular
The family and the nation/state
The new and the old
The global and the local
Mechanics: Text and Image
ABCs
Text as image
Visual certitude
Diversity, diversion and satire
Commodification and the Market
Commodification
Purchase and possession
Subscription
New strategies
Localization
Prices
Identification
Lives of Reading and Writing
Becoming readers
Halide Edib [Adıvar]
Şevket Süreyya [Aydemir]
Rıza Nur
Hüseyin Cahit [Yalçın]
Halide Nusret [Zorlutuna]
From readers to writers
Conclusion: Reading and Modernity
Notes