JAST 50: Spring 2019
Published in spring 2019, the 50th issue of the Journal of American Studies of Turkey opens with tributes to Selhan Savcıgil Endres and Bill Jones. The main essays focus on space, trauma, and identity in modern literature. Yonca Denizarslanı explores Cajun heritage in Elizabeth Nell Dubus’s novel Cajun. Çağdaş Duman applies Julia Kristeva’s concept of abjection to the HIV/AIDS crisis in books by Jamaica Kincaid and Sapphire. Merve Özman Kaya discusses Amy Waldman’s The Submission and its role as a literary anti-monument. Gülşen Aslan Uslu breaks down the structural use of space in Mark Z. Danielewski’s House of Leaves. The edition closes with a book review covering the Beat Generation's reception in Turkey.
Published:
2019-04-01
