In contemporary Turkey, a growing interest in Ottoman history represents a change in both the official state discourse and popular culture. This nostalgia appropriates, reinterprets, decontextualizes, and juxtaposes formerly distinct symbols, ideas, objects, and histories in unprecedented ways. In this paper, we distinguish between state-led neo-Ottomanism and popular cultural Ottomania, focusing on the ways in which people in Turkey are interpellated by these two different yet interrelated discourses, depending on their social positions. As the boundary between highbrow and popular culture erodes, popular cultural representations come to reinterpret and rehabilitate the Ottoman past while also inventing new insecurities centering on historical “truth.” Utilizing in-depth interviews, we show that individuals juxtapose the popular television seriesMuhteşem Yüzyıl(The Magnificent Century) with what they deem “proper” history, in the process rendering popular culture a “false” version. We also identify four particular interpretive clusters among the consumers of Ottomania: for some, the Ottoman Empire was the epitome of tolerance, where different groups lived peacefully; for others, the imperial past represents Turkish and/or Islamic identities; and finally, critics see the empire as a burden on contemporary Turkey.

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在新奥斯曼主义和奥斯曼尼亚之间：探索国家主导和流行的过去文化表现

在当代土耳其，对奥斯曼历史的兴趣日益浓厚，代表了官方国家话语和流行文化的变化。这种怀旧以前所未有的方式挪用、重新解释、去语境化和并置以前截然不同的符号、思想、对象和历史。在本文中，我们区分了国家主导的新奥斯曼主义和流行文化奥斯曼主义，重点关注土耳其人民如何被这两种不同但相互关联的话语所质疑，这取决于他们的社会地位。随着高雅文化和流行文化之间的界限逐渐消失，流行文化表现形式开始重新解释和恢复奥斯曼帝国的过去，同时也以历史“真相”为中心创造新的不安全感。利用深度访谈，我们表明个人将流行的电视连续剧并列穆赫特谢姆·尤日尔（壮丽的世纪）拥有他们认为“正确”的历史，在此过程中将流行文化渲染为“虚假”版本。我们还在奥斯曼尼亚的消费者中确定了四个特殊的解释集群：对一些人来说，奥斯曼帝国是宽容的缩影，不同的群体在这里和平相处；对于其他人来说，帝国的过去代表了土耳其和/或伊斯兰的身份；最后，批评者将帝国视为当代土耳其的负担。