JAST 53: Spring 2020

Published in spring 2020, the 53rd issue of the Journal of American Studies of Turkey focuses on preservation, commemoration, and American identity through monuments and museums. Nisa H. Güzel Köşker introduces the edition and later provides an essay on the female body and spectatorship in American silent film. Several articles explore the concept of memory and physical spaces. Julia Lange examines Holocaust memory at the German-American Heritage Museum, while Ece Saatçıoğlu analyzes the Museum of Jurassic Technology as a postmodern American space. Seda Şen discusses post-9/11 American poetry as a collective monument, and İdil Didem Keskiner explores the Vietnam Veterans Memorial and the destruction of American masculinity in Bobbie Ann Mason’s novel In Country. Finally, Gamze Katı Gümüş investigates how the Pilot created an alternative archive against nationalist amnesia for the Catholic Irish during the Civil War.