Transnational Turn in American Studies : Turkey and the United States.
Title:
Transnational Turn in American Studies : Turkey and the United States.
Author:
Tunc, Tanfer Emin.
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9783035103908
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (323 pages)
Contents:
Table of Contents -- TURKISH COALITION OF AMERICA (TCA) - Foreword 9 -- TANFER EMIN TUNC AND BAHAR GURSEL - Introduction - The Transnational Turn in American Studies: Turkey and the United States 11 -- Part I: Literature and the Arts -- HIVREN DEMIR-ATAY - Chapter One - In Search of a "Global Love Poem": Poe in Turkish Literature 27 -- CAROL LEA CLARK - Chapter Two - Mark Twain, the "Innocent,"in Ottoman Turkey and Palestine 43 -- BARIS GUMUSBAS - Chapter Three - American Machine in the Turkish Garden: Representations of America in Turkish Short Fiction 59 -- YONCA DENIZARSLANI - Chapter Four - Mirroring America: Impressions of America in the Writings of Buket Uzuner, Enis Batur and Mustafa Ziyalan 83 -- GÖNÜL PULTAR - Chapter Five - Portrait of a Turkish American Lady: Şirin/Shirin Devrim or How to Weave A Transnational Tapestry 103 -- ERIK MORTENSON- Chapter Six - Importing Counterculture: On the Road's Turkish Reception 119 -- AHMET BESEChapter Seven - Thoughts on Censorship in Turkey and the West 141 -- Part II: Popular and Consumer Culture -- ISIL ACEHAN - Chapter Eight - Ottoman Coffeehouses in the United States: The Development of a Transnational Community in Eastern Massachusetts 155 -- TRACEY JEAN BOISSEAU - Chapter Nine - Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang Nation: Hollywood and the En-Gendering of Modernity in the Youth of the Early Turkish Republic 169 -- LAURENCE RAW - Chapter Ten - Hollywood's Turkish Films, 1930-1960: A Nation Looks at Itself 191 -- BAHAR GURSEL - Chapter Eleven - Wild and/or Beautiful?: The Representation of the American West from a Twenty-First Century Turkish Perspective 209 -- TANFER EMIN TUNC - Chapter Twelve - "How I Tried to Leave the Mall and Why the Mall Wouldn't Let Me": Thoughts on American Consumer Culture and the Mallification of Turkey 225.
ANNESSA ANN BABIC - Chapter Thirteen - Eastern Eyes for Western Goods, Western Eyes for Eastern Markets: Consumer Goods, National Identity, and US-Turkish Relations 253 -- ONUR DIZDAR - Chapter Fourteen - Rediscovering America in Hypertext: How Turkish Youth Define the United States on Ekşi Sözlük 271 -- IPEK BEREN YURTTAS - Chapter Fifteen - Aunt Jemima and Mabel: Black Womenand Consumer Culture in the United States and Turkey 289 -- Notes on Contributors 309 -- Index 315.
Abstract:
Over the past decade, a new transnational movement has emerged within American Studies. It centers on the efforts of US-based Americanists to conduct transnational and comparative research while recognizing that scholars working outside the geographical boundaries of the US have just as much to contribute to American Studies as those within its borders. Such an approach not only fills in the blanks of historical, literary and cultural studies to include diasporic participants, but also enriches our understanding of major American events, figures, and influences beyond the limited geographic framework of the United States. Despite increasing interest, transnational American Studies remains a subdiscipline, or one of a host of many side interests for most scholars. There exist few booklength studies which examine American Studies from the Turkish perspective, and little on the contributions of Turkey to American culture. This interdisciplinary volume seeks to begin a transnational dialogue between Turkey and the United States by highlighting the work that is being conducted by noted Turkish academics, American researchers, as well as foreign scholars working in Turkey, many of whom are living examples of transnationality.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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