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Author Furlanetto, Elena, author.

Title Towards Turkish American literature : narratives of multiculturalism in post-imperial Turkey / Elena Furlanetto.

Publication Info. Frankfurt am Main ; New York : Peter Lang Edition, [2017]

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Description 1 electronic resource (283 pages).
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Series Interamericana ; volume 10
Interamericana (Verlag Peter Lang) ; v. 10.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
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Contents Cover; Table of Contents; I. Introduction: What is (not) Turkish American Literature; The Significance of the United States in Turkish American Literature; Turkish American Literature and the "Transnational Turn"; A Gentle Empire; 'Unearthing' and Embracing the Colonial Past; Beyond Empire: A Postcolonial Reading of Turkish American Literature; The Postcoloniality of Turkey; Turkish American Literature and the Postcolonial Imagery; Postcolonialism and Resistance: A Critical Perspective on Turkish American Literature
II. Imaginary Spaces: Representations of Istanbul between Topography and ImaginationThe Unplaceability of Orhan Pamuk; Orhan Pamuk: Overground and Underground Istanbul; "Safe Spaces of the Like-Minded": Elif Shafak's Cafés; Becoming Someone Else: Imitation and Truthfulness; 'Authenticity' and Americanization ; Integration and Segregation: Shall the Twain Meet?; The Ottoman Utopia; Utopia and Empire; Ottoman Utopia and Neo-Ottomanism; "Hrant Dink's Dream"; Life in the Islands and in the Villages; Two Approaches to Cultural Identity; III. Rewriting History, Rewriting Religion
Between Imperialism and "Wholesome Curiosity": Halide Edip's Benevolent AmericaImperialism and Humanitarianism; True Christians and very Unchristian Christians: American Humanitarianism in the Empire Territories; An Imaginary Us and an Imaginary Them; Ferries and Orphanages: Rewriting the Legacy of Edip's Memoirs; Hullabaloo on the Bosphorus Ferry: The Development of Othering Strategies from "Borrowed Colonialism" to Nationalism; Ferries Rewritten: Elif Shafak's "Life in the Islands"; Little Stories of Independence: Orphanages; Towards Ottoman Sisterhood
Women and Children First: Founding a 'Subaltern' ReligionHalide Edip: Rethinking Prophets and Fathers of the Nation; Sufi Madonna with Child; Undermining Myths of Masculinity and the "Threat of Islam": Ali's Religion of Love; A Religion of Love and a Religion of Fear: Mitigating the East/West Divide in the Aftermath of 9/11; IV. Sufism in America and Turkey: A Transnational Dialogue; The American Journey as Sufi Journey: Emerson and Shafak; Two directions in the American Discourse on Sufism: Whitman and Shafak; The Transcendental Author: from National to Transnational Literature
Sufi Selves in comparisonThe Forty Rules of Love: A Secular Awakening; Of Material Love and Ornamental Sufism; The Road to Baghdad Leads Somewhere: the (Ir)relevance of Sufism in Güneli Gün's On The Road to Baghdad; Secularized Sufi elements in On the Road to Baghdad; Sufi Mysticism and North American Postmodernism: Barth, Barthes, Gün; V. Ottoman Nature: Natural Imagery, Gardens, Wells, and Cultural Memory in Republican Turkey; American Nature and Turkish American Natural Symbolism
Summary The author aims to expand the definition of Turkish American literature beyond fiction written by Americans of Turkish descent to incorporate texts that literally 'commute' between two national spheres. Her analyses include literary works of Elif Shafak, Halide Edip, Güneli Gün and Alev Lytle Croutier.
Subject Turkish literature -- American influences.
Turkish literature -- History and criticism.
Multiculturalism in literature.
Postcolonialism in literature.
Sufism in literature.
Turks in literature.
Turkish Americans.
National characteristics, Turkish, in literature.
Littérature turque -- Influence américaine.
Littérature turque -- Histoire et critique.
Multiculturalisme dans la littérature.
Postcolonialisme dans la littérature.
Soufisme dans la littérature.
Turcs dans la littérature.
Américains d'origine turque.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- General.
National characteristics, Turkish, in literature
Multiculturalism in literature
Postcolonialism in literature
Sufism in literature
Turkish Americans
Turkish literature
Turks in literature
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Anthologies.
Other Form: Print version: Towards Turkish American literature Frankfurt am Main ; Peter Lang Edition, [2017] 9783631677247 (DLC) 2016056957
ISBN 9783631677247
9783631709054 (electronic bk.)
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9783653072297 (electronic bk.)
3653072298 (electronic bk.)
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