The new cultural climate in Turkey
Subtitle: living in a shop window
By: Nurdan Gèurbilek ; translated by Victoria Holbrook
Contributors: Holbrook, Victoria Rowe, 1952- translator
Publisher: Zed Books; Distributed in the USA exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: London; New York; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 218
ISBN-13: 9781848134867; 9781848134874; 9781848134881
Subjects: Politics and government; Civilization; History
Description: The New Cultural Climate in Turkey is a beautifully written collection of essays by a leading Turkish intellectual. Offering a sophisticated review of the culture, politics and literature in Turkey, this is the sole book in English that analyses the cultural aspects of modern Turkey in order to explore its place within global politics - a groundbreaking work.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : cultural climate, personal history; title: Living in a shop window; title: To be named; title: Privation; title: The return of the repressed; title: Me too; title: Death of the stranger; title: Child of agony; title: Bad boy Turk (1); title: Bad boy Turk (2); title: 'The orijinal Turkish spirit'.