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The Provincial and The Postcolonial in Cultural Texts from Late Modern Turkey
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| Verlag: | Palgrave Macmillan |
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| Veröffentl.: | 26.07.2022 |
| ISBN/EAN: | 9783031046667 |
| Sprache: | englisch |
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<p>This book explores Turkey’s complicated relationship to modernity and its status within the new global order by tracing the ambivalent ways in which <i>taşra</i> (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), <i>taşra</i> 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 <i>taşra</i> as its central analytic and informed by postcolonial, psychoanalytical, and critical theory, the book examines the extent to which dominant codings of <i>taşra</i> are affirmed and/or complicated in cinematic and literary narratives by award-winning filmmakers Nuri BilgeCeylan and Fatih Akın and Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk.</p><br><p></p>
<div>1. Introduction.- 2. Concepts and Frameworks: <i>Taşra</i> from Modernization to Globalization.- 3. <i>Taşra</i>, Temporality, and Melancholia in Orhan Pamuk’s <i>Istanbul</i>.- 4. Fatih Akın’s <i>Crossing the Bridge</i>: Turkey as Europe’s <i>Taşra</i>, or Limitations of a Metaphor.- 5. Provincializing The Metropolitan Center: Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s <i>Taşras.-</i> 6. Conclusion.</div>
<p><b>Evren Özselçuk</b> teaches in the Department of English and the Film and Media Studies Program at the University of South Carolina, USA. </p><br><p></p>
<p>This book explores Turkey’s complicated relationship to modernity and its status within the new global order by tracing the ambivalent ways in which <i>taşra</i> (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), <i>taşra</i> 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 <i>taşra</i> as its central analytic and informed by postcolonial, psychoanalytical, and critical theory, the book examines the extent to which dominant codings of <i>taşra</i> are affirmed and/or complicated in cinematic and literary narratives by award-winning filmmakers Nuri BilgeCeylan and Fatih Akın and Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk.</p><p><b>Evren Özselçuk</b> teaches in the Department of English and the Film and Media Studies Program at the University of South Carolina, USA.</p><p></p>
Examines conceptualizations of tasra (the provincial) in contemporary Turkish film and literature Demonstrates how Turkish politics and culture have opened up to, and been opened up by, transnational processes Interrogates Turkey’s complicated relationship to European hegemony through a postcolonial lens
<div>“A fascinating, lucidly-written investigation of the provincial in the writings of Pamuk and the cinema of Nuri Bilge Ceylan, which also doubles as a wonderfully informative and varied introduction to some of the most significant moments within modern Turkish popular culture.” (Ian Almond, Professor, Georgetown University, Qatar)<br><br>“Skillfully demonstrating how orientalism is translated by Turkish nationalism into an opposition between the urban and the provincial (“taşra”), this book offers a new framework for understanding contemporary Turkish culture. Its close readings make an invaluable contribution to our understanding of the postcolonial world by showing how the modernity of the nation found its negative energy in what it deemed provincial. Özselçuk develops a thought-provoking account of the complex relationship between cultural works and neo-liberal populism. Her book makes a unique contribution to scholarship in several fields, including Turkish Studies, postcolonial cultural studies, film and media studies and literary criticism.” (Mahmut Mutman, Professor and Senior Researcher, Institute for Advanced Social Research, Tampere University, Finland)</div><div></div>
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