{"product_id":"american-writers-in-istanbul-kim-fortuny-9780815632368","title":"American Writers in Istanbul: Melville, Twain, Hemingway, DOS Passos, Bowles, Algren, Baldwin and Settle","description":"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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Kim Fortuny\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0815632363\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780815632368\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Syracuse University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/19\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 292\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.20h x 6.30w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReference and Research Bk News\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/01\/2010 pg. 275","brand":"Kim Fortuny","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43926473244927,"sku":"9780815632368","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_8631ed7b-26a9-4f01-a620-4926023c602e.jpg?v=1681083267","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/american-writers-in-istanbul-kim-fortuny-9780815632368","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}