Orient Lost: Literature and Anxiety
by Nurdan Gürbilek
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In this collection of essays Nurdan Gürbilek explores the sexual anxieties accompanying the Ottoman-Turkish literary modernization; the anxiety of effeminization and castration, of forever being locked up in childhood.
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A foremost cultural critic in Turkey, Nurdan Gürbilek is the author of Living in a Shop Window (Zed Books), an analysis of the cultural dynamics of the 1980s in Turkey. Her other publications include Shifting Shadow and Homework, collections of essays on modern Turkish writers. After Bad Boy Turk, an analysis of the significant images and tropes in modern Turkish literature and popular culture, Orient Lost, which explores the sexual anxieties accompanying the Ottoman-Turkish literary modernization, Language of the Downtrodden, which deals with Dostoyevsky's "underground tragedy" and its counterparts in modern Turkish literature, her most recent book is Second Life: Essays on Escaping, Being Kicked Out and Returning (2020).
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- Publisher Metis Publishers
- Orginal LanguageTurkish
- ISBN/Identifier 9789753424898
- Publication Country or regionTurkey
- FormatPaperback
- Pages248
- ReadershipGeneral
- Publish StatusPublished
- Original Language TitleKör Ayna, Kayıp Şark: Edebiyat ve Endişe
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