@article{1448467,
      recid = {1448467},
      author = {Özselçuk, Evren,},
      title = {The provincial and the postcolonial in cultural texts from  late modern Turkey /},
      pages = {1 online resource},
      note = {Includes index.},
      abstract = {This book explores Turkeys complicated relationship to  modernity and its status within the new global order by  tracing the ambivalent ways in which tasra (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), tasra is  a way of naming what modernity decries as spatial  peripherality, temporal belatedness, and cultural  backwardness. It has functioned historically as a  psychosocial repository for what Turkish modernity degrades  and disavows, enabling a mapping of the predicaments and  contradictions of Turkish modernization and national  identity-constitution. Organized around tasra as its  central analytic and informed by postcolonial,  psychoanalytical, and critical theory, the book examines  the extent to which dominant codings of tasra are affirmed  and/or complicated in cinematic and literary narratives by  award-winning filmmakers Nuri Bilge Ceylan and Fatih Akn  and Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk. Evren Ozselcuk teaches in  the Department of English and the Film and Media Studies  Program at the University of South Carolina, USA.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1448467},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-04666-7},
}