Before Erdogan's repressive politics took hold, queer cultures were more visible than ever in Turkey. Queer Turkey offers a broad range of reflections on queer Turkish cultures within a transnational, Euro-American context. Based on his experience in...
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Before Erdogan's repressive politics took hold, queer cultures were more visible than ever in Turkey. Queer Turkey offers a broad range of reflections on queer Turkish cultures within a transnational, Euro-American context. Based on his experience in Istanbul, Ralph J. Poole shares his impressions of queer desires between Muslim tradition and global pop, observes what goes on in the hamam, and wonders about Arabesk culture.The book features discussions of queer travel writers, poets, playwrights, and film directors. Their multifarious works manifest the subtle and subversive ways in which artists crisscross the cultural borders of East and West. With its many facets of Turkish-Euro-American cultural interactions, Queer Turkey outlines a kaleidoscope of transnational poetics.
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 Ünel'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 Rückert 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 Yeşilçam 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 Tatlıses's Nostalgic Anatolian Machismo to Emrah's Sexed-Up Hard Body -- Flamboyant Transgression? Bülent Ersoy -- Orientalized Pop-Export: Tarkan
