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

by Evren Özselçuk

This book explores Turkey's complicated relationship to modernity and its status within the new global order by tracing the ambivalent ways in which taşra (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), taşra is a way of naming what modernity decries as spatial peripherality, temporal belatedness,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3031046684
• ISBN13: 9783031046681
• Release Date: July 2023
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 186 Pages
• Weight: 0.53 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.8" x 8.3"