Imaginaries out of place : cinema, transnationalism and Turkey
Gökçen Karanfil (Editor), Serkan Şavk (Editor)
""As new geographies of mobility and hybridity make the concept of national identity highly problematic, new questions emerge that challenge and destabilize our conventional ways of thinking. Where do migrants 'belong'? Are they members of a distant nation, or natives of the places in which they live? What kind of changes does the sense of 'Turkishness' undergo, and what does it mean to various Turkish communities living in various parts of the world? Most important of all, can emergent migran ..
eBook, English, 2013
Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, 2013
1 online resource (x, 224 pages)
9781443868600, 1443868604
892430344
Table of contents; foreword and acknowledgements; an introduction from the editors; a transformational experience within the contexts of "national" and "transnational"; transforming hospitality; habitats of meaning; from two worlds to a third space; the limitation of urban space in thomas arslan's berlin trilogy; the black humor world of migrants caught between two cultures; at home in the new germany?; wedding scenes as metaphors for homeland; centre and periphery; from turkish greengrocer to drag queen; women in turkish-german cinema; contributors
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