Haliloğlu, NagihanHaliloğlu, Nagihanİnsan ve Toplum Bilimleri Fakültesi, Karşılaştırmalı Edebiyat Bölümü2018-07-132018-07-132018Haliloğlu, N. (2018). Constantinopolitan modernities: Leonard Woolf, Virginia Woolf and Halide Edib. Virginia Woolf Conference, Canterbury UK, June 2018.https://app.trdizin.gov.tr/makale/TkRRNE5ETXhNUT09https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12154/377This is a polemical paper about how a city may be perceived in different registers. Istanbul as a bartering piece in peace negotiations, as in the case of Leonard Woolf’s The Future of Constantinople (1917), and Istanbul as a space that evokes modernist responses by two female writers- one of them a young British novelist on her tour of the continent before WWI, and the other a Turkish novelist writing about her experience of the British Occupation in 1918, a year after Leonard Woolf’s tract (Brits occupied Istanbul from late Nov 1918- Sep 1923).1 Gathering these modern responses to Constantinople’s geographical and symbolic location, I try to formulate aspects of ‘Constantinopolitan modernities’ that engage with the meanings that the city has taken on and generated.eninfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessConstantinopolitan ModernitiesPolemicalOttomansConference ObjectTkRRNE5ETXhNUT09