Beyond Anitkabir: The Funerary Architecture of AtatĂŒrk
The Construction and Maintenance of National Memory
Christopher S. Wilson
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Beyond Anitkabir: The Funerary Architecture of AtatĂŒrk
The Construction and Maintenance of National Memory
Christopher S. Wilson
Ă propos de ce livre
There have been five different settings that at one time or another have contained the dead body of Mustafa Kemal AtatĂŒrk, organizer of the Turkish War of Independence (1919-1923) and first president of the Republic of Turkey. Narrating the story of these different architectural constructions - the bedroom in Dolmabahçe Palace, Istanbul, where he died; a temporary catafalque in this same palace; his funeral stage in Turkey's new capital Ankara; a temporary tomb in the Ankara Ethnographic Museum; and his permanent and monumental mausoleum in Ankara, known in Turkish as 'Anitkabir' (Memorial Tomb) - this book also describes and interprets the movement of AtatĂŒrk's body through the cities of Istanbul and Ankara and also the nation of Turkey to reach these destinations. It examines how each one of these locations - accidental, designed, temporary, permanent - has contributed in its own way to the construction of a Turkish national memory about AtatĂŒrk. Lastly, the two permanent constructions - the Dolmabahçe Palace bedroom and Anitkabir - have changed in many ways since their first appearance in order to maintain this national memory. These changes are exposed to reveal a dynamic, rather than dull, impression of funerary architecture.
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Informations
Table des matiĂšres
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Maps
- Introduction
- 1 Funerary Architecture, Representation and AtatĂŒrk
- 2 Identity, Memory, Nationalism and Architecture
- 3 Dolmabahçe Palace
- 4 The Ankara Catafalque
- 5 Ethnographic Museum Temporary Tomb
- 6 Anıtkabir Mausoleum
- 7 Maintaining National Memory
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index