The Transnational Turn in American Studies

Tanfer Emin Tunc is an Assistant Professor in the Department of American Culture and Literature at Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey. She received her BA, MA and PhD in American History, and an Advanced Graduate Certificate in Women's Studies from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. She specializes in US women's history and literature; the history of medicine, sexuality, and reproduction; and American cultural studies. Tanfer Emin Tunc is the author of six books and over fifty book chapters, reference book entries, book reviews, and journal articles, most of which have appeared in internationally-renowned publications such as Rethinking History, Asian Journal of Women's Studies, Foreign Literature Studies, Women's History Review, Historical Journal and Journal of Women's History. Bahar Gursel is an Assistant Professor at the Department of History at Middle East Technical University (M.E.T.U.) in Ankara, Turkey, where she currently teaches US cultural history, Cold War history and the history of civilization. Bahar Gursel conducted research and taught at the University of Turin in 2008-2009 as a member of an urban studies group. She is the author of a number of essays on US and Italian history. Her areas of interest include the diplomatic, social and cultural history of the United States, modern Italian history, the cultural history of the Republic of Turkey (1930-1960), immigration history, urban history, visual culture and film studies.

Contents: Turkish Coalition of America (TCA): Foreword - Tanfer Emin Tunc/Bahar Gursel: Introduction - The Transnational Turn in American Studies: Turkey and the United States - Hivren Demir-Atay: In Search of a "Global Love Poem": Poe in Turkish Literature - Carol Lea Clark: Mark Twain, the "Innocent," in Ottoman Turkey and Palestine - Baris Gumusbas: American Machine in the Turkish Garden: Representations of America in Turkish Short Fiction - Yonca Denizarslani: Mirroring America: Impressions of America in the Writings of Buket Uzuner, Enis Batur and Mustafa Ziyalan - Gönül Pultar: Portrait of a Turkish American Lady: Sirin/Shirin Devrim or How to Weave A Transnational Tapestry - Erik Mortenson: Importing Counterculture: On the Road's Turkish Reception - Ahmet Bese: Thoughts on Censorship in Turkey and the West - Isil Acehan: Ottoman Coffeehouses in the United States: The Development of a Transnational Community in Eastern Massachusetts - Tracey Jean Boisseau: Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang Nation: Hollywood and the En-Gendering of Modernity in the Youth of the Early Turkish Republic - Laurence Raw: Hollywood's Turkish Films, 1930-1960: A Nation Looks at Itself - Bahar Gursel: Wild and/or Beautiful?: The Representation of the American West from a Twenty-First Century Turkish Perspective - Tanfer Emin Tunc: "How I Tried to Leave the Mall and Why the Mall Wouldn't Let Me": Thoughts on American Consumer Culture and the Mallification of Turkey - Annessa Ann Babic: Eastern Eyes for Western Goods, Western Eyes for Eastern Markets: Consumer Goods, National Identity, and US-Turkish Relations - Onur Dizdar: Rediscovering America in Hypertext: How Turkish Youth Define the United States on Eksi Sözlük - Ipek Beren Yurttas: Aunt Jemima and Mabel: Black Women and Consumer Culture in the United States and Turkey.