Post-Ottoman temporal topologies—cases where the past, present, and future may be bent around one another rather than ordered linearly—may produce uncanny histories. The uncanny is activated, as Freud noted, when something secret comes to light, but also when the expectations of a given genre are exceeded. In these cases, the genre of historicism has been violated. Rather than contending that the post-Ottoman world is entirely different from Western Europe, the examples here alert one to the presence of uncanny histories in many other places since historicism has nowhere managed to eradicate its alternatives. Unsettled pasts of violence and displacement and presents beset by ongoing tensions (political, economic, religious/ethnic) do contribute, however, to a particular vitality and saliency of uncanny histories in the post-Ottoman sphere.

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不可思议的历史：后奥斯曼世界的时间拓扑

后奥斯曼帝国的时间拓扑——过去、现在和未来可能相互弯曲而不是线性排列的情况——可能会产生不可思议的历史。正如弗洛伊德所指出的，当某些秘密曝光时，以及当超出特定类型的期望时，神秘感就会被激活。在这些情况下，历史主义的流派遭到了侵犯。与其争辩说后奥斯曼世界与西欧完全不同，这里的例子提醒人们注意在许多其他地方存在着不可思议的历史，因为历史主义没有任何地方能够根除它的替代品。然而，动荡不安的暴力和流离失所的过去以及被持续紧张局势（政治、经济、宗教/种族）困扰的现状确实有助于后奥斯曼帝国领域的神秘历史具有特殊的活力和显着性。