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The Provincial and the Postcolonial in Cultural Texts from Late Modern Turkey

The Provincial and the Postcolonial in Cultural Texts from Late Modern Turkey

Özselçuk, Evren

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Literary CriticismFilm StudiesGeneral Racism & Ethnic Studies

ISBN10: 3031046684
ISBN13: 9783031046681
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: Jul 28 2023
Pages: 186
Weight: 0.53
Height: 0.42 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English

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 BilgeCeylan and Fatih Akın and Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk.

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