The transnational turn in American studies
Subtitle: Turkey and the United States
By: Tanfer Emin Tunc & Bahar Gursel (eds.).
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Berlin; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 321
ISBN-13: 9783034305525
Subjects: Turkish Foreign public opinion; Study and teaching; In literature; Turkish literature; American literature; Relations; History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : the transnational turn in American studies : Turkey and the United States / Tanfer Emin Tunc and Bahar Gursel; title: In search of a global love poem : Poe in Turkish literature / Hirvren Demir-Atay; title: Mark Twain, the innocent, in Ottoman Turkey and Palestine / Carol Lea Clark; title: American machine in the Turkish garden : representations of America in Turkish short fiction / Baris Gumusbas; title: Mirroring America : impressions of America in the writings of Buket Uzuner, Enis Batur and Mustafa Ziyalan / Yonca Denizarslani; title: Portrait of a Turkish American lady : Sirin/Shirin Devrim or how to weave transnational tapestry / Gonul Pultar; title: Importing counterculture : On the road's Turkish reception / Erik Mortenson; title: Thoughts on censorship in Turkey and the West / Ahmet Bese; title: Ottoman coffeehouses in the United States : the development of a transnational community in eastern Massachusetts / Isil Acehan; title: Kiss kiss, bang bang nation : Hollywood and the en-gendering of modernity in the youth of the early Turkish republic / Tracey Jean Boisseau; title: Hollywood's Turkish films, 1930-1960 : a nation looks at itself / Laurence Raw; title: Wild and/or beautiful : the representation of the American West from a twenty-first century Turkish perspective / Bahar Gursel; title: How I tried to leave the mall and why the mall wouldn't let me : thoughts on American consumer culture and the mallification of Turkey / Tanfer Emin Tunc; title: Eastern eyes for western goods, western eyes for eastern markets : consumer goods, national identity, and US-Turkish relations / Annessa Ann Babi; title: Rediscovering America in hypertext : how Turkish youth define the United States on Eksi Sözlük / Onur Dizdar; title: Aunt Jemima and Mabel : black women and consumer culture in the United States and Turkey / Ipek Beren Yurttas.