The Provincial And The Postcolonial In Cultural Texts From Late Modern Turkey

Author : Evren Özselçuk
Publisher : Unknown
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Release : 2022
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3031046676

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The Provincial and The Postcolonial in Cultural Texts from Late Modern Turkey by Evren Özselçuk Pdf

This book explores Turkey's complicated relationship to modernity and its status within the new global order by tracing the ambivalent ways in which taşra (the provinces) is constituted in contemporary Turkish cinema and literature. Connoting much more than its immediate spatial meaning as those places outside of the center(s), taşra is a way of naming what modernity decries as spatial peripherality, temporal belatedness, and cultural backwardness. It has functioned historically as a psychosocial repository for what Turkish modernity degrades and disavows, enabling a mapping of the predicaments and contradictions of Turkish modernization and national identity-constitution. Organized around taşra as its central analytic and informed by postcolonial, psychoanalytical, and critical theory, the book examines the extent to which dominant codings of taşra are affirmed and/or complicated in cinematic and literary narratives by award-winning filmmakers Nuri Bilge Ceylan and Fatih Akın and Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk. Evren Özselçuk teaches in the Department of English and the Film and Media Studies Program at the University of South Carolina, USA.

Author : Evren Özselçuk
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2022-07-26
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783031046667

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The Provincial and The Postcolonial in Cultural Texts from Late Modern Turkey by Evren Özselçuk Pdf

This book explores Turkey’s complicated relationship to modernity and its status within the new global order by tracing the ambivalent ways in which taşra (the provinces) is constituted in contemporary Turkish cinema and literature. Connoting much more than its immediate spatial meaning as those places outside of the center(s), taşra is a way of naming what modernity decries as spatial peripherality, temporal belatedness, and cultural backwardness. It has functioned historically as a psychosocial repository for what Turkish modernity degrades and disavows, enabling a mapping of the predicaments and contradictions of Turkish modernization and national identity-constitution. Organized around taşra as its central analytic and informed by postcolonial, psychoanalytical, and critical theory, the book examines the extent to which dominant codings of taşra are affirmed and/or complicated in cinematic and literary narratives by award-winning filmmakers Nuri Bilge Ceylan and Fatih Akın and Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk.

Author : Deniz Kandiyoti,Ayşe Saktanber
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 0813530822

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Fragments of Culture by Deniz Kandiyoti,Ayşe Saktanber Pdf

Fragments of Culture explores the evolving modern daily life of Turkey. Through analyses of language, folklore, film, satirical humor, the symbolism of Islamic political mobilization, and the shifting identities of diasporic communities in Turkey and Europe, this book provides a fresh and corrective perspective to the often-skewed perceptions of Turkish culture engendered by conventional western critiques. In this volume, some of the most innovative scholars of post 1980s Turkey address the complex ways that suburbanization and the growth of a globalized middle class have altered gender and class relations, and how Turkish society is being shaped and redefined through consumption. They also explore the increasingly polarized cultural politics between secularists and Islamists, and the ways that previously repressed Islamic elements have reemerged to complicate the idea of an "authentic" Turkish identity. Contributors examine a range of issues from the adjustments to religious identity as the Islamic veil becomes marketed as a fashion item, to the media's increased attention in Turkish transsexual lifestyle, to the role of folk dance as a ritualized part of public life. Fragments of Culture shows how attention to the minutiae of daily life can successfully unravel the complexities of a shifting society. This book makes a significant contribution to both modern Turkish studies and the scholarship on cross-cultural perspectives in Middle Eastern studies.

Author : Frank A. Stone
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Education
ISBN : UVA:X000736397

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The Rub of Cultures in Modern Turkey by Frank A. Stone Pdf

Author : Ayse Ozge Kocak Hemmat
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2019-02-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004366046

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The Turkish Novel and the Quest for Rationality by Ayse Ozge Kocak Hemmat Pdf

The Turkish Novel and the Quest for Rationality offers an alternative genealogy of the emergence and development of the Turkish novel by situating the genre in an intellectual framework motivated by conceptions of reason and rationality in the Turkish modernization project.

Author : Nurdan Gurbilek
Publisher : Zed Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2010-12-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1848134878

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The New Cultural Climate in Turkey by Nurdan Gurbilek Pdf

The New Cultural Climate in Turkey is a beautifully written collection of essays by a leading Turkish intellectual. It presents a compelling analysis of cultural politics in Turkey, arguing that the dominant clichéd dualities of East/West and secular/sacred mask a reality of silence, repression and return. Gürbilek's keen analysis of radical changes following the 1980 coup demonstrates how two apparently contrary cultural strategies - one repressive and censoring, forcing abnegation, the other liberal and provocative, inviting assimilation - were roused to join in silent solidarity. Offering a sophisticated review of the culture, politics and literature in Turkey, this is the sole book in English that analyses the cultural aspects of modern Turkey in order to explore its place within global politics - a groundbreaking work.

Author : Laurent Mignon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105122227619

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Neither Shiraz Nor Paris by Laurent Mignon Pdf

Author : Frank A. Stone
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Turkish literature
ISBN : OCLC:1158638181

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The Rub of cultures in modern Turkey by Frank A. Stone Pdf

Author : Ahmet Emin Yalman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1914
Category : Press
ISBN : UCAL:$B112951

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The Development of Modern Turkey as Measured by Its Press by Ahmet Emin Yalman Pdf

Author : Pierre Hecker,Ivo Furman,Kaya Akyıldız
Publisher : EUP
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 147449028X

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The Politics of Culture in Contemporary Turkey by Pierre Hecker,Ivo Furman,Kaya Akyıldız Pdf

Exposing the strategy of Turkey's ruling elite to obtain cultural hegemony, this book examines the AKP's efforts to rewrite Turkish public memory by promoting its ideas through TV series, movies, propaganda videos, school curricula and material culture in urban public spaces.

Author : Deniz Kandiyoti
Publisher : I. B. Tauris
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2014-03-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1299639879

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Fragments of Culture by Deniz Kandiyoti Pdf

Writing from within the cultural landscape of modern Turkey, 'Fragments of Culture' presents exciting new writing on the everyday, providing a corrective to the often skewed perceptions of Turkish culture engendered by conventional western critiques. From adjustments to religious identity as the Islamic veil becomes marketed as a fashion item to the media explosion of interest in Turkish transsexual lifestyle to the strained cross-class relations between comfortably-off apartment tenants and their more humble doorkeepers, 'Fragments of Culture' focuses on the diversity of contemporary Turkish life. This book contributes to both modern Turkish studies and the scholarship and debates on cross-cultural perspectives in cultural studies in the Middle East

Author : Ahmed Emin
Publisher : Kessinger Publishing
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2008-06-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1436624134

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The Development of Modern Turkey as Measured by Its Press (1914) by Ahmed Emin Pdf

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Author : William M. Hale,Ali Çarkoğlu
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Turkey
ISBN : 0415411068

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The Politics of Modern Turkey by William M. Hale,Ali Çarkoğlu Pdf

Author : Suvir Kaul
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2009-02-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780748634569

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Eighteenth-Century British Literature and Postcolonial Studies by Suvir Kaul Pdf

'This book convincingly challenges both the extremely short historical memory of most postcolonial work and the all-too-insularly English world still conjured by period specialists. Hogarthian whores and Grub Street hacks, coffee houses and fashionable pastimes, and the burgeoning of print culture all stand revealed as intimately bound to portents of plantation insurgency, agitation for abolition, and the vast fortunes produced by the labouring bodies of the poor, the colonized, and the enslaved. Eighteenth-century studies has never appeared in a more engaged and fascinating light.'Professor Donna Landry, University of KentIn this volume Suvir Kaul addresses the relations between literary culture, English commercial and colonial expansion, and the making of 'Great Britain' in the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He argues that literary writing played a crucial role in generating the vocabulary of British nationalism, both in inter-national terms and in attempts to realign political and cultural relations between England, Scotland, and Ireland. The formal innovations and practices characteristic of eighteenth-century English literature were often responses to the worlds brought into view by travel writers, merchants, and colonists. Writers (even those suspicious of mercantile and colonial expansion) worked with a growing sense of a 'national literature' whose achievements would provide the cultural capital adequate to global imperial power, and would distinguish Great Britain for its twin success in 'arms and arts'. The book ranges from Davenant's theatre to Smollet's Roderick Random to Phillis Wheatley's poetry to trace the impact of empire on literary creativity.Key Features*An introduction to the impact of mercantilism and empire on the crafting of eighteenth-century British literature*Encourages students to examine the key formal innovations that define eighteenth-century British literary history as they were produced by writers who redefined

Author : Monika Albrecht
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2019-06-19
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781000007824

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Postcolonialism Cross-Examined by Monika Albrecht Pdf

Taking a strikingly interdisciplinary and global approach, Postcolonialism Cross-Examined reflects on the current status of postcolonial studies and attempts to break through traditional boundaries, creating a truly comparative and genuinely global phenomenon. Drawing together the field of mainstream postcolonial studies with post-Soviet postcolonial studies and studies of the late Ottoman Empire, the contributors in this volume question many of the concepts and assumptions we have become accustomed to in postcolonial studies, creating a fresh new version of the field. The volume calls the merits of the field into question, investigating how postcolonial studies may have perpetuated and normalized colonialism as an issue exclusive to Western colonial and imperial powers. The volume is the first to open a dialogue between three different areas of postcolonial scholarship that previously developed independently from one another: • the wide field of postcolonial studies working on European colonialism, • the growing field of post-Soviet postcolonial/post-imperial studies, • the still fledgling field of post-Ottoman postcolonial/post-imperial studies, supported by sideways glances at the multidirectional conditions of interaction in East Africa and the East and West Indies. Postcolonialism Cross-Examined looks at topics such as humanism, nationalism, multiculturalism, nostalgia, and the Anthropocene in order to piece together a new, broader vision for postcolonial studies in the twenty-first century. By including territories other than those covered by the postcolonial mainstream, the book strives to reframe the “postcolonial” as a genuinely global phenomenon and develop multidirectional postcolonial perspectives.