American Writers in Istanbul: Melville, Twain, Hemingway, DOS Passos, Bowles, Algren, Baldwin and Settle (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780815632368)

A Westerner writing about Istanbul "comes up against the Orient as a European or American first, as an individual second," writes Edward Said. The American writers gathered in this collection are approached from the willed double perspective advocated by Said: as historically and culturally positioned observers and as individuals. Looking at texts by writers who do not necessarily define themselves as Orientalists, Kim Fortuny broadens the possible ways of thinking about this complex, idiosyncratic city of the world. In addition, the author's close critical readings of the works of eight American writers who came to Istanbul and wrote about it offer a transnational approach to American writing that urges a loosening of a collective, national grip on literature as a product of place. This volume will be an invaluable addition to the history of literature.

Author: Kim Fortuny
ISBN-10: 0815632363
ISBN-13: 9780815632368
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Language: English
Published: 01/19/2010
Pages: 292
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.30w x 1.00d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 05/01/2010 pg. 275