Queer Turkey : Transnational Poetics of Desire

Queer Turkey Transnational Poetics of Desire

Before Erdogan's repressive politics took hold, queer cultures were more visible than ever in Turkey. Queer Turkey offers a broad range of reflections on queer Turkish cultures within a transnational, Euro-American context. Based on his experience in Istanbul, Ralph J. Poole shares his impressi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Poole, Ralph J., author (author)
Corporate Author: Knowledge Unlatched - KU Select 2021: Frontlist Collection funder (funder)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Bielefeld : transcript Verlag [2022]
Edition:1st ed
Series:Queer Studies
Subjects:
Bisexualität
Homosexualität
Intersexualität
Kulturleben
Transsexualität
Sexuelle Orientierung
Queer-Theorie
Intersektionalität
SOCIAL SCIENCE / LGBT Studies / Gay Studies.
Cultural Studies.
Culture.
Gender Studies.
Gender.
Istanbul.
LGBTQ.
Orientalism.
Popular Culture.
Queer Theory.
Sexuality.
See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009714459906719
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • I. Queer Istanbul
  • 1. Istanbul: Queer Desires Between Muslim Tradition and Global Pop
  • 2. Architecture of Seduction, or: What (Really) Goes On in the Hamam?
  • II. Istanbul and the Queer Stage
  • 3. “But we are all androgynous:” James Baldwin’s Staging America in Turkey
  • 4. “Built for Europeans who came on the Orient Express:” Queer Desires of Extravagant Strangers in Sinan Ünel’s Pera Palas
  • III. Transnational Queer Poetics
  • 5. “The Wonder of Thy Beauty:” Bayard Taylor’s Poems of the Orient as an Intermediary Between German Romanticism and American Gentility
  • 6. Bastardized History: Elif Shafak’s Transcultural Poetics
  • IV. Performing Queer Turkish Cultures
  • 7. Precarious Masculinities in the New Turkish Cinema
  • 8. Arabesk: Nomadic Tales, Oriental Beats, and Hybrid Looks

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