Exploring Turkish Cultures Essays Interviews and Reviews 1st Edition by Laurence Raw ISBN 1443827584 9781443827584

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ISBN 10: 1443827584

ISBN 13: 9781443827584 

Author: Laurence Raw 

This groundbreaking series of essays offers new insights into Turkish cultures both past and present. Moving beyond the traditional binaries of east/west, Islam/secularism, and Europe/Asia, the book contains a variety of perspectives on contemporary Turkey, from actors, directors, critics and other major cultural figures. The book tries to situate these opinions in context by looking at how such perspectives are employed in different cultural spheres—education, theatre, politics and the like.

Exploring Turkish Cultures contains the first major interviews published in English with prominent public figures, including actors Türkân Şoray, Genco Erkal and Nesrin Kazankaya. Other figures interviewed include film directors Derviş Zaim and documentary filmmakers Ben Hopkins, Pelin Esmer and Özgür Doğan. An extended interview with the author, translator and academic Talât Halman rounds off the interview section. Complementing these interviews are a series of essays on major Turkish films and theatrical productions, both past and present.

Combining historical analysis, comment and evaluation from an author who has spent two decades living in Turkey, Exploring Turkish Cultures represents a major contribution to contemporary Turkish studies.

Table of contents:

Part I: Education, Culture, Politics

• Intercultural Competence: Does it Exist?

• Reconstructing Englishness

• Recognizing Difference: Interdisciplinarity and the Cultural Studies Association

• Towards a Pedagogy for Teaching Foreign Languages and Literatures

• The European Union and the Modernization of the Turkish Education System

• Postcards from Istanbul

• Postmodernisms in the Turkish Context

• The Writer’s Search for Freedom of Expression

• The Ambassador’s Reception

• Cultural Policy in the Turkish Republic

• Educating the People: Representations of National Identity in the Istanbul Military Museum and the Sofia Museum of National History

• Marketing Mediterranean Museums

• The Poetics and Politics of Translation

• Talât Halman: A Man of Many Parts

Part II: Theatre

• Translating Theatre Texts: Shakespeare’s As You Like It

• Every Inch a King: Cüneyt Gökçer’s King Lear

• Yıldız Kenter: Spanning the Decades

• Genco Erkal – The Theatre of Commitment

• Staging Waiting for Lefty: Or, Agit-Prop in Ankara

• Evolving Attitudes to the American Dream: Death of a Salesman in the Turkish Context

• Nesrin Kazankaya: Challenging Theatrical Orthodoxies

Part III: Film

• T. E. Lawrence, The Turks, and the Arab Revolt in the Cinema: Anglo-American and Turkish Representations

• Ayhan Iúık: Long Live the King

• The Many Faces of Türkân Şoray

• The Turk Abroad: Otobüs (1974)

• Derviş Zaim: “To Return to the Past Means Embarking on a New Journey.”

• Telling it Like it Is: Recent Turkish Documentary Feature Films

• Tolga Örnek: A Fresh Look at Old Stories

• Secular Populism in Recent Turkish Historical Films

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