Queer Turkey : Transnational Poetics of Desire.
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Bielefeld :
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2022.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Series: | Queer Studies
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| Online Access: | Click to View |
Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Contents
- Introduction
- I. Queer Istanbul
- 1. Istanbul: Queer Desires Between Muslim Tradition and Global Pop
- 12 points
- Turkey's Transitional Periods: Kemalist Modernization, Military Coups, Queer Activism
- Sex Between Men: Ottoman Tradition and Turkish Everyday Life
- Istanbul at Night: Queer Literature, Arabesk Music, and Gay Bars
- 2. Architecture of Seduction, or: What (Really) Goes On in the Hamam?
- Travelers' Hamam Fantasies
- Lady Montagu Visits the Hamam
- Harem Suare: Fictions within Fictions
- Hamam: The Official Tour Guide Version
- After Sex Is before Sex: The Hamam as Sacred Space of Transition
- Hamam: Architecture of Seduction
- Archives of Feeling: Hamam's Queer Temporality
- II. Istanbul and the Queer Stage
- 3. "But we are all androgynous:" James Baldwin's Staging America in Turkey
- Speaking from Another Place
- The Reluctant Queer
- Stranger in the City
- Freaks at the Welcome Table
- 4. "Built for Europeans who came on the Orient Express:" Queer Desires of Extravagant Strangers in Sinan Ünel's Pera Palas
- "a fucking palace:" Grand Hotel
- "Where memory is, theatre is:" Harem as Memorial
- "a place without a place:" Queer Space
- "A kiss is just a kiss?" Extravagant Strangers
- 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
- The Arabian Indifference to Time-Moving From East to West
- From West to East to West-Cross-Cultural Counterpoints
- "Wahlheimatliteratur"-Taylor Reading Rückert Reading Goethe
- "Unwinding the Turban:" Poems of the Orient as American Pastoral
- Emblematic Male Oriental Beauty-Emulating Hafiz
- Taylor's Travels to the Orient-Expanding Genteel Expectations
- 6. Bastardized History: Elif Shafak's Transcultural Poetics.
- Comic Survival or the Endless Repeat Melody
- Elegiac Metropolis or "A Bridge in Between"
- Edible City, or the Etho-Poetics of Food and Sex
- IV. Performing Queer Turkish Cultures
- 7. Precarious Masculinities in the New Turkish Cinema
- From Yeşilçam to New Turkish Cinema: Black Turks and Nationalist Masculinity
- Precarious Masculinities in the New Turkish‑German Cinema: The Melodramatic Penis and Trans‑Masculinity
- 8. Arabesk: Nomadic Tales, Oriental Beats, and Hybrid Looks
- Arabesk's Impurity: From Anatolia to Istanbul
- From Tatlıses's Nostalgic Anatolian Machismo to Emrah's Sexed‑Up Hard Body
- Flamboyant Transgression? Bülent Ersoy
- Orientalized Pop-Export: Tarkan.