Queer Turkey: Transnational Poetics of Desire

Ralph J. Poole

Open Access Published by transcript Verlag 2022

Queer Turkey

Transnational Poetics of Desire

Ralph J. Poole
Funded by: Knowledge Unlatched - KU Select 2021: Frontlist Collection

Volume 25 in the series Queer Studies

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839450604

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About this book

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 impressions of queer desires between Muslim tradition and global pop, observes what goes on in the hamam, and wonders about Arabesk culture.
The book features discussions of queer travel writers, poets, playwrights, and film directors. Their multifarious works manifest the subtle and subversive ways in which artists crisscross the cultural borders of East and West. With its many facets of Turkish-Euro-American cultural interactions, Queer Turkey outlines a kaleidoscope of transnational poetics.

Author / Editor information

Ralph J. Poole is an American-German researcher who teaches as a professor of American studies at the University of Salzburg, Austria. 2004-08, he was an associate professor of English at a Turkish university in Istanbul. Amongst his publications is a study on the avant-garde tradition in American theatre, a book on satirical and auto-ethnographical cannibal texts, and an essay collection on dangerous masculinities. His main research interests are gender and queer studies, popular culture, and transnational American studies.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	5
Introduction Open Access Download PDF	9
I. Queer Istanbul
1. Istanbul: Queer Desires Between Muslim Tradition and Global Pop Open Access Download PDF	29
2. Architecture of Seduction, or: What (Really) Goes On in the Hamam? Open Access Download PDF	65
II. Istanbul and the Queer Stage
3. “But we are all androgynous:” James Baldwin’s Staging America in Turkey Open Access Download PDF	113
4. “Built for Europeans who came on the Orient Express:” Queer Desires of Extravagant Strangers in Sinan Ünel’s Pera Palas Open Access Download PDF	129
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 Open Access Download PDF	163
6. Bastardized History: Elif Shafak’s Transcultural Poetics Open Access Download PDF	193
IV. Performing Queer Turkish Cultures
7. Precarious Masculinities in the New Turkish Cinema Open Access Download PDF	217
8. Arabesk: Nomadic Tales, Oriental Beats, and Hybrid Looks Open Access Download PDF	237

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 262
Keywords: Istanbul; Orientalism; LGBTQ; Popular Culture; Gender; Culture; Queer Theory; Sexuality; Gender Studies; Cultural Studies

eBook

Published: June 27, 2022
ISBN: 9783839450604