Beschreibung
is an essential tool for scholars and students of Middle Eastern literature, Turkish literature and culture, gender and sexuality studies, modern and postmodern literature, postcolonial and feminist literature and studies, cultural studies, religious studies, and women’s studies.
Autorenportrait
Jaspal Kaur Singh, Professor of English Literature at Northern Michigan University (NMU), earned her PhD in comparative literature from the University of Oregon (1998). She received the Fulbright Teaching and Research Award (2012–2013), the Peter White Award and the Distinguished Faculty Award at NMU (2013–2014; 2009–2010), and the Rockefeller Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellow at UCLA (1998–1999). Dr. Singh is the author of
(2008), co-editor of
(Lang, 2010) and
(Lang, 2010), and assistant editor of
(2011).
Mary Lou O’Neil is Associate Professor of Political Science and the Director of the Gender and Women’s Studies Center at Kadir Has University. She earned her PhD in American studies from the University of Kansas (2000). Dr. O’Neil has published articles in
and
Inhalt
Contents: ?ehnaz ?i?mano?lu ?im?ek: Foreword – Jaspal Kaur Singh/ Mary Lou O’Neil: Introduction – Keya Anjaria: Rethinking Istanbul: Women and the City in Perihan Ma?den’s
– Sukanya Gupta: Negotiating the Female Self in Post 1960s Istanbul: The Representation of Women in Three Turkish Short Stories – Deniz Gündo?an ?bri?im: Dersim’s Spectral Female Heritage: Queering «Once Upon a Time» – Mary Lou O’Neil: Wicked Witches: The Representation of Foreign Women on Turkish Television – Jaspal Kaur Singh: (Post)Modernity, Diaspora, and Gender in Turkish Literature: Narrative Disjuncture and Ambiguities in Elif Shafak’s
– Spring Ulmer: Solidarity under Winter Suns: Reading Asl? Erdo?an across Genres and against Nationalisms.
