Queer Turkey : Transnational Poetics of Desire.
Poole, Ralph J.
Queer Turkey : Transnational Poetics of Desire. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (263 pages) - Queer Studies . - Queer Studies .
Cover -- Contents -- Introduction -- I. Queer Istanbul -- 1. Istanbul: Queer Desires Between Muslim Tradition and Global Pop -- 12 points -- Turkey's Transitional Periods: Kemalist Modernization, Military Coups, Queer Activism -- Sex Between Men: Ottoman Tradition and Turkish Everyday Life -- Istanbul at Night: Queer Literature, Arabesk Music, and Gay Bars -- 2. Architecture of Seduction, or: What (Really) Goes On in the Hamam? -- Travelers' Hamam Fantasies -- Lady Montagu Visits the Hamam -- Harem Suare: Fictions within Fictions -- Hamam: The Official Tour Guide Version -- After Sex Is before Sex: The Hamam as Sacred Space of Transition -- Hamam: Architecture of Seduction -- Archives of Feeling: Hamam's Queer Temporality -- II. Istanbul and the Queer Stage -- 3. "But we are all androgynous:" James Baldwin's Staging America in Turkey -- Speaking from Another Place -- The Reluctant Queer -- Stranger in the City -- Freaks at the Welcome Table -- 4. "Built for Europeans who came on the Orient Express:" Queer Desires of Extravagant Strangers in Sinan �Unel's Pera Palas -- "a fucking palace:" Grand Hotel -- "Where memory is, theatre is:" Harem as Memorial -- "a place without a place:" Queer Space -- "A kiss is just a kiss?" Extravagant Strangers -- 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 -- The Arabian Indifference to Time-Moving From East to West -- From West to East to West-Cross-Cultural Counterpoints -- "Wahlheimatliteratur"-Taylor Reading R�uckert Reading Goethe -- "Unwinding the Turban:" Poems of the Orient as American Pastoral -- Emblematic Male Oriental Beauty-Emulating Hafiz -- Taylor's Travels to the Orient-Expanding Genteel Expectations -- 6. Bastardized History: Elif Shafak's Transcultural Poetics. Comic Survival or the Endless Repeat Melody -- Elegiac Metropolis or "A Bridge in Between" -- Edible City, or the Etho-Poetics of Food and Sex -- IV. Performing Queer Turkish Cultures -- 7. Precarious Masculinities in the New Turkish Cinema -- From Yeşil�cam to New Turkish Cinema: Black Turks and Nationalist Masculinity -- Precarious Masculinities in the New Turkish‑German Cinema: The Melodramatic Penis and Trans‑Masculinity -- 8. Arabesk: Nomadic Tales, Oriental Beats, and Hybrid Looks -- Arabesk's Impurity: From Anatolia to Istanbul -- From Tatl�ses's Nostalgic Anatolian Machismo to Emrah's Sexed‑Up Hard Body -- Flamboyant Transgression? B�ulent Ersoy -- Orientalized Pop-Export: Tarkan.
9783839450604
Electronic books.
Queer Turkey : Transnational Poetics of Desire. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (263 pages) - Queer Studies . - Queer Studies .
Cover -- Contents -- Introduction -- I. Queer Istanbul -- 1. Istanbul: Queer Desires Between Muslim Tradition and Global Pop -- 12 points -- Turkey's Transitional Periods: Kemalist Modernization, Military Coups, Queer Activism -- Sex Between Men: Ottoman Tradition and Turkish Everyday Life -- Istanbul at Night: Queer Literature, Arabesk Music, and Gay Bars -- 2. Architecture of Seduction, or: What (Really) Goes On in the Hamam? -- Travelers' Hamam Fantasies -- Lady Montagu Visits the Hamam -- Harem Suare: Fictions within Fictions -- Hamam: The Official Tour Guide Version -- After Sex Is before Sex: The Hamam as Sacred Space of Transition -- Hamam: Architecture of Seduction -- Archives of Feeling: Hamam's Queer Temporality -- II. Istanbul and the Queer Stage -- 3. "But we are all androgynous:" James Baldwin's Staging America in Turkey -- Speaking from Another Place -- The Reluctant Queer -- Stranger in the City -- Freaks at the Welcome Table -- 4. "Built for Europeans who came on the Orient Express:" Queer Desires of Extravagant Strangers in Sinan �Unel's Pera Palas -- "a fucking palace:" Grand Hotel -- "Where memory is, theatre is:" Harem as Memorial -- "a place without a place:" Queer Space -- "A kiss is just a kiss?" Extravagant Strangers -- 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 -- The Arabian Indifference to Time-Moving From East to West -- From West to East to West-Cross-Cultural Counterpoints -- "Wahlheimatliteratur"-Taylor Reading R�uckert Reading Goethe -- "Unwinding the Turban:" Poems of the Orient as American Pastoral -- Emblematic Male Oriental Beauty-Emulating Hafiz -- Taylor's Travels to the Orient-Expanding Genteel Expectations -- 6. Bastardized History: Elif Shafak's Transcultural Poetics. Comic Survival or the Endless Repeat Melody -- Elegiac Metropolis or "A Bridge in Between" -- Edible City, or the Etho-Poetics of Food and Sex -- IV. Performing Queer Turkish Cultures -- 7. Precarious Masculinities in the New Turkish Cinema -- From Yeşil�cam to New Turkish Cinema: Black Turks and Nationalist Masculinity -- Precarious Masculinities in the New Turkish‑German Cinema: The Melodramatic Penis and Trans‑Masculinity -- 8. Arabesk: Nomadic Tales, Oriental Beats, and Hybrid Looks -- Arabesk's Impurity: From Anatolia to Istanbul -- From Tatl�ses's Nostalgic Anatolian Machismo to Emrah's Sexed‑Up Hard Body -- Flamboyant Transgression? B�ulent Ersoy -- Orientalized Pop-Export: Tarkan.
9783839450604
Electronic books.