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American Writers in Istanbul: Melville, Twain, Hemingway, Dos Passos, Bowles, Algren, and Baldwin (Contemporary Issues in the Middle East)
Kim Fortuny
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Description for American Writers in Istanbul: Melville, Twain, Hemingway, Dos Passos, Bowles, Algren, and Baldwin (Contemporary Issues in the Middle East)
Hardcover. Looking at texts by writers who do not necessarily define themselves as Orientalists, this title broadens the possible ways of thinking about Istanbul - a complex, idiosyncratic city of the world. Series: Contemporary Issues in the Middle East. Num Pages: 224 pages, 22 b/w illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1DVT; 1KBB; 2AB; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 236 x 160 x 24. Weight in Grams: 562.
A westerner writing about Istanbul 'comes up against the Orient as a European or American first, as an individual second', writes Edward Said. The American writers gathered in this collection are approached from the willed double perspective advocated by Said: as historically and culturally positioned and as individuals. Looking at texts by writers who do not necessarily define themselves as Orientalists, Kim Fortuny broadens the possible ways of thinking about this complex, idiosyncratic city of the world. In addition, the author's close critical readings of the works of seven canonical American writers who came to Istanbul and wrote about it ... Read more
A westerner writing about Istanbul 'comes up against the Orient as a European or American first, as an individual second', writes Edward Said. The American writers gathered in this collection are approached from the willed double perspective advocated by Said: as historically and culturally positioned and as individuals. Looking at texts by writers who do not necessarily define themselves as Orientalists, Kim Fortuny broadens the possible ways of thinking about this complex, idiosyncratic city of the world. In addition, the author's close critical readings of the works of seven canonical American writers who came to Istanbul and wrote about it ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Syracuse University Press
Condition
New
Series
Contemporary Issues in the Middle East
Number of Pages
292
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780815632368
SKU
V9780815632368
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About Kim Fortuny
Kim Fortuny is assistant professor of English at Bogazici University in Istanbul, Turkey. She is the author of Elizabeth Bishop: The Art of Travel.
Reviews for American Writers in Istanbul: Melville, Twain, Hemingway, Dos Passos, Bowles, Algren, and Baldwin (Contemporary Issues in the Middle East)
For centuries the western gaze has distorted Istanbul, revealing more about the beholder than the city beheld. In this important and long overdue study about eight canonical American writers writing from or about Istanbul, Fortuny offers a brilliant analysis of the varied but quintessentially North American preoccupations they bring to bear as they struggle to make sense of a culture ... Read more