JAST 55: Spring 2021

Published in spring 2021, the 55th issue of the Journal of American Studies of Turkey covers a broad range of literature, identity, and film. Defne Ersin Tutan opens the edition with an editorial introduction. Gizem Akçil examines sisterhood and alienation in Shirley Jackson’s We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Süleyman Bölükbaş looks at the construction of gay sexuality in Edmund White’s A Boy’s Own Story, and Meryem Bahar Karataş explores African American women's narratives in Lucille Clifton’s Generations. Ezgi İlimen discusses culinary survival in Maya Angelou's writing. Gülşen Aslan Uslu analyzes spatial elements in An Opera in Flatland, Olena Boylu covers historical consciousness in Underworld, Fırat Karadaş tackles the distorted Enlightenment ideology in Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, and Vahit Yaşayan writes about the end of the real American cowboy in Cities of the Plain. Shifting to cinema, Elizabeth Joan Abele revisits adoption narratives through the film News of the World, while Susan Savage Lee explores immigrant directors and the breaking of tradition in Argentine cinema through Mario Soffici’s Viento Norte.