JAST 58: Fall 2022 - LIFE WRITING ISSUE
Published in fall 2022, the 58th issue of the Journal of American Studies of Turkey is a special edition dedicated entirely to life writing, opening with an introductory overview by S. Bilge Mutluay Çetintaş on the core issues surrounding the genre. The collection features diverse personal narratives and memoirs, beginning with Mert Deniz examining the self-representations of Levi Parsons and Pliny Fisk, the first American missionaries to the Middle East. Mariya Doğan then explores reading lists as manifestos in Karla F. C. Holloway’s bibliomemoir BookMarks: Reading in Black and White, while Aylin Pekanık analyzes the subversion of illness narratives and the role of the unreliable narrator in Lying: A Metaphorical Memoir. Additionally, Ana Kocić Stanković investigates American literary connections in American Orphan, and Gül Varlı Karaarslan concludes the research section by examining how Kwame Onwuachi asserts Black culinary identity in his memoir Notes of a Young Black Chef.
