The Provincial and The Postcolonial in Cultural Texts from Late Modern Turkey

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<p>This book explores Turkey¿s complicated relationship to modernity and its status within the new global order by tracing the ambivalent ways in which <i>ta¿ra</i> (the provinces) is constituted in contemporary Turkish cinema and literature. Connoting much more than its immediate spatial meaning as those places outside of the center(s), <i>ta¿ra</i> is a way of naming what modernity decries as spatial peripherality, temporal belatedness, and cultural backwardness. It has functioned historically as a psychosocial repository for what Turkish modernity degrades and disavows, enabling a mapping of the predicaments and contradictions of Turkish modernization and national identity-constitution. Organized around <i>ta¿ra</i> as its central analytic and informed by postcolonial, psychoanalytical, and critical theory, the book examines the extent to which dominant codings of <i>ta¿ra</i> are affirmed and/or complicated in cinematic and literary narratives by award-winning filmmakers Nuri BilgeCeylan and Fatih Ak¿n and Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk.</p> <p></p>

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<p><b>Evren Özselçuk</b> teaches in the Department of English and the Film and Media Studies Program at the University of South Carolina, USA. </p> <p></p>

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