The New Cultural Climate in Turkey

Nurdan GürbIlek, one of the foremost cultural critics in Turkey and an analysis of the cultural dynamics of the 1980s in Turkey. She is the author of Living in a Shop Window (1992). Her other publications include Shifting Shadow (1995) and Homework (1999), a collection of essays on modern Turkish writers.She is also the author of Bad Boy Turk (2001), an analysis of some of the significant images and tropes in modern Turkish literature and popular culture, and of Orient Lost (2004), which explores the sexual anxieties accompanying the Ottoman-Turkish literary modernization. Her last book, The Language of the Wronged (2008), is a collection of essays on Dostoevsky's 'underground tragedy' and its counterparts in modern Turkish literature.Nurdan GürbIlek, one of the foremost cultural critics in Turkey and an analysis of the cultural dynamics of the 1980s in Turkey. She is the author of Living in a Shop Window (1992). Her other publications include Shifting Shadow (1995) and Homework (1999), a collection of essays on modern Turkish writers.She is also the author of Bad Boy Turk (2001), an analysis of some of the significant images and tropes in modern Turkish literature and popular culture, and of Orient Lost (2004), which explores the sexual anxieties accompanying the Ottoman-Turkish literary modernization. Her last book, The Language of the Wronged (2008), is a collection of essays on Dostoevsky's 'underground tragedy' and its counterparts in modern Turkish literature.

"The New Cultural Climate in Turkey" is a beautifully written collection of essays by a leading Turkish literary intellectual, which presents a compelling analysis of the cultural climate in Turkey, making the argument that the dominant external cliched dualities of East/West; Secular/Sacred; and Arabic/European should be replaced by a narrative of silence, repression and return. Comprising a sophisticated review of the history, culture and politics of Turkey since the 1980 military coup, this is the only book in English that analyzes the cultural aspects of modern Turkey in order to explore its place within global politics, a groundbreaking work for anyone with an interest in Turkey.

Cultural Climate, Personal History Living in a Shop Window To be Named Privation The Return of the Repressed Me Too Death of the Stranger Child of Agony Bad Boy Turk Bad Boy Turk II 'The Original Turkish Spirit'