SEYAHATNAMELERDE BURSA’NIN ALIMLANMA BİÇİMLERİ: FAHRUNNİSA HANIM, HÜSEYİN VASSAF, HİKMET ARİF, AHMET HAŞİM VE TANPINAR ÖRNEKLERİ
THE PERCEPTIONS OF BURSA IN THE TRAVEL BOOKS: EXAMPLES OF FAHRUNNISA HANIM, HUSEYIN VASSAF, HIKMET ARIF, AHMET HASIM AND TANPINAR

Summary/Abstract: The travelogue is one of the oldest genres of literature, the aim of which is to get to know the places visited in detail, to gather information and to guide the reader through these places. This genre has become much more important as a result of developments in the 19th and 20th centuries. Travels to Bursa, which has attracted the attention of local and foreign travellers for hundreds of years, have a special value in these periods. While the local travellers who came to Bursa during these periods of great destruction and transformation wrote about what they saw in the city, they also gave examples of how the city was perceived in their own time. This study focuses on the ways in which Bursa is perceived in Fahrunnisa Hanım’s Hüdavendigâr Vilayetinde Kısmen Bir Cevelan (1896), Hüseyin Vassaf’s Bursa Hatırası (1896) Hikmet Arif’s Bursa Seyahati (1922), Ahmet Haşim’s ‘Gurabahâne-i Laklakan’ (1923) and Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar’s ‘Bursa'da Zaman’ (1946) essays in Beş Şehir. The diversity in the perceptions of these travellers with different perspectives on Bursa is a necessary result of both the personalities of the travellers and the conditions of the time. The fact that these works, published between 1896 and 1946, are discussed together is also valuable because it shows that it is not only the people and human relations that change in the city, but also the places that are reconstructed in the minds with a different perception.

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