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Exploring Turkish Cultures
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 410

Exploring Turkish Cultures

  • Categories: Art

This groundbreaking series of essays offers new insights into Turkish cultures both past and present. Moving beyond the traditional binaries of east/west, Islam/secularism, and Europe/Asia, the book contains a variety of perspectives on contemporary Turkey, from actors, directors, critics and other major cultural figures. The book tries to situate these opinions in context by looking at how such perspectives are employed in different cultural spheres—education, theatre, politics and the like. Exploring Turkish Cultures contains the first major interviews published in English with prominent public figures, including actors Türkân Şoray, Genco Erkal and Nesrin Kazankaya. Other figures int...

The Turkish-American Conundrum
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 222

The Turkish-American Conundrum

This collection of essays discusses various aspects of the experiences of Turkish immigrants in the United States, and of US expatriates in Turkey. It explores the predicament of the Turkish-American element on US soil, in a manner paralleling already existent disciplines such as Italian-American Studies and German-American Studies, and assembles disparate research on the subject. As such, it will serve to herald in print the launching of a new paradigm, Turkish-American Studies. The volume fits within transnational American Studies, but also develops its own approach, which is what constitutes its novelty.

Struggle and Survival under Authoritarianism in Turkey
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 199

Struggle and Survival under Authoritarianism in Turkey

After the Justice and Development Party (AKP) came to power in Turkey in 2002, the AKP grew into an authoritarian government as it politically and culturally oppressed citizens and institutions. In Struggle and Survival under Authoritarianism in Turkey: Theatre under Threat, Burcu Yasemin Şeybenargues thattheatre was deliberately targeted because theatre institutions and companies embodied the cultural program of the statist and Kemalist cultural policy that has continually excluded Muslims and various religious and ethnic minorities. Although the AKP claimed to be replacing the top-down, discriminatory, and secular statist and Kemalist theatre system with a facilitative and inclusive one, the AKP gradually adapted a more authoritarian system, as evidenced by their efforts to close and defund theatres, ban plays, and force theatre artists to exile. Despite the AKP’s increasing oppression, Şeybenstudies contemporary Turkish theatre to establish that a few theatre institutions, companies, and artists have managed to survive and develop democratic cultural policies and strategies that will outlive the AKP government.

Talking at the Gates
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 415

Talking at the Gates

An intimate portrait of Baldwin's mythic life. James Baldwin was one of the most incisive and influential American writers of the twentieth century. Active in the civil rights movement and open about his homosexuality, Baldwin was celebrated for eloquent analyses of social unrest in his essays and for daring portrayals of sexuality and interracial relationships in his fiction. By the time of his death in 1987, both his fiction and nonfiction works had achieved the status of modern classics. James Campbell knew James Baldwin for the last ten years of Baldwin's life. For Talking at the Gates, Campbell interviewed many of Baldwin's friends and professional associates and examined several hundre...

Muhteşem Salak Beyin
  • Language: tr
  • Pages: 172

Muhteşem Salak Beyin

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2021-11-08
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  • Publisher: Ceren Sutlas

It tells us lots of interesting stories about the brain. It is based on scientific knowledge, written in daily language.

Brecht, Turkish Theater, and Turkish-German Literature
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 176

Brecht, Turkish Theater, and Turkish-German Literature

Uncovers the central role of Brecht reception in Turkish theater and Turkish-German literature, examining interactions between Turkish and German writers, texts, and contexts.

Music and Sound in European Theatre
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 365

Music and Sound in European Theatre

The need for a research volume on European theatre music and sound is almost self-evident. Musical and sonic practices have been an integral part of theatre ever since the artform was first established 2,500 years ago: not just in subsequent genres that are explicitly driven by music, such as opera, operetta, ballet, or musical theatre, but in all kinds of theatrical forms and conventions. Conversely, academic recognition of the role of theatre music, its aesthetics, creative processes, authorships, traditions, and innovations is still insufficient. This volume unites experts from different disciplines and backgrounds to make a significant contribution to the much-needed discourse on theatre...

Beyond Headscarf Culture in Turkey’s Retail Sector
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 199

Beyond Headscarf Culture in Turkey’s Retail Sector

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2016-04-08
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  • Publisher: Springer

The headscarf issue draws a great deal of public and academic attention in Turkey, yet the debate largely unfolds within the contours of the discussions over modernization, Westernization, and the Islamic / secular divide. Rarely is there a discussion about how the connotations of the headscarf shift across cleavages of class and status among women wearing it. Instead, the headscarf is typically portrayed as a symbol of Islamic identity, a 'cover' that brackets social inequalities other than those based on a supposed 'clash of identities.' This study looks beyond these contours by contextualizing the headscarf discussion in an insecure and low-status private sector labor market – namely, retail sales. Based on in-depth interviews, focus groups with lower-middle-class saleswomen with headscarves, and ethnographic study in five cities of Turkey, this book argues that the meanings of the headscarf are continuously negotiated within the quest for social and economic security.

The Lion and the Nightingale
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 217

The Lion and the Nightingale

Kaya Genc's account of modern Turkey, a country split between East and West, a rich past and an unpredictable, dangerous future.

Notos Öykü 80 - Yüzyılın 40 Oyunu
  • Language: tr
  • Pages: 324

Notos Öykü 80 - Yüzyılın 40 Oyunu

YÜZYILIN 40 OYUNU Notos’un 14. Büyük Soruşturması • Charles E. May: Öyküler Neden Vazgeçilmezdir ve Neden Pek Az Okunur • Semih Gümüş: Düzyazının Değiştiği Anlar • Zeynep Bengü: Sade Bir Ruh, Görkemli Bir Ressam: Séraphine Louis • Atilla Birkiye: Hayattan Sayfalar ve Kusturica Edebiyatımızın önde gelen dergilerinden Notos, her yıl farklı bir konuda düzenlediği geleneksel yıllık soruşturmalarının on dördüncüsünün sonuçlarını Şubat-Mart, 80. sayısında açıkladı. Bu yılki soruşturmanın konusu, tiyatro dünyasının dışındaki herkesin büyük ölçüde ilgi alanı dışında kalan oyunlar. Oyun metnini bir edebiyat türü olarak öne ...