Provincial and The Postcolonial in Cultural Texts from Late Modern Turkey (e-bog) af Ozselcuk, Evren
Ozselcuk, Evren (forfatter)

Provincial and The Postcolonial in Cultural Texts from Late Modern Turkey e-bog

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This book explores Turkey's complicated relationship to modernity and its status within the new global order by tracing the ambivalent ways in which tasra (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), tasra is a way of naming what modernity decries as spatial peripher...
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Forfattere Ozselcuk, Evren (forfatter)
Udgivet 26 juli 2022
Genrer 1D
Sprog English
Format pdf
Beskyttelse LCP
ISBN 9783031046667
This book explores Turkey's complicated relationship to modernity and its status within the new global order by tracing the ambivalent ways in which tasra (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), tasra 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 tasra as its central analytic and informed by postcolonial, psychoanalytical, and critical theory, the book examines the extent to which dominant codings of tasra are affirmed and/or complicated in cinematic and literary narratives by award-winning filmmakers Nuri Bilge Ceylan and Fatih AkA n and Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk.