Turkish Kaleidoscope (eBook)

Fractured Lives in a Time of Violence

Jenny White (Autor)

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2021
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-21549-5 (ISBN)

Infos

A powerful graphic novel that traces Turkey's descent into political violence in the 1970s through the experiences of four students on opposing sides of the conflictTurkish Kaleidoscope tells the stories of four unforgettable protagonists as they navigate a society torn apart by violent political factions. It is 1975 and Turkey is on the verge of civil war. Faruk and Orhan are from conservative shopkeeping families in eastern Anatolia that share a sense of new possibilities. Nuray is the daughter of villagers who have migrated to the provincial city where Yunus, the son of an imprisoned teacher, was raised in genteel poverty. While attending medical school in Ankara, Faruk draws a reluctant Orhan into a right-wing nationalist group while Nuray and Yunus join the left. Against a backdrop of escalating violence, the four students fall in love, have their hearts broken, get married, raise families, and struggle to get on with their lives. But the consequences of their decisions will follow them through their lives as their children begin the story anew, skewed through the kaleidoscope of historical events.Inspired by Jenny White's own experiences as a student in Turkey during this tumultuous period as well as original oral histories of Turks who lived through it, Turkish Kaleidoscope reveals how violent factionalism has its own emotional and cultural logic that defies ideological explanations.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 4.5.2021
• Illustrationen: Ergün Gündüz
• Zusatzinfo: 101 color illus.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Comic / Humor / Manga ► Comic
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Schlagworte: acronym • activism • AKP • Alan Moore • And Here My Troubles Began • Anthropology • Artisan • Art Spiegelman • A Survivor’s Tale • Berlin • charismatic authority • Christopher Houston, Istanbul, City of the Fearless • Citizenship • city of light • City of Smoke • City of Stones • civil service • Class struggle • Clothing • Coalition Government • communism • Composite character • Coup • cross-cultural psychology • Culture • Dare to Disappoint • distrust • electricity • facial hair • Furniture • Gender • gezi • Great Power • Gülen Movement • Hacettepe University • hatred • headscarf • Institution • Insurgency • Islamism • Jason Lutes • Kemalism • Kurdish population • Kurdistan Workers' Party • Kurds • Leftist • Marjane Satrapi • Masculinity • master's degree • Maus • Maus II • narrative • new society • Obedience (human behavior) • Of, Turkey • Oral History • Ozge Samanci • parliamentary system • Pekesen • Persepolis • piety • Police • political demonstration • Political organization • Political Party • political upheaval • Political violence • Politics • Princeton University Press • Radicalization • Recep Tayyip Erdogan • Referendum • Religious education • rightist • right-wing politics • Secularism • shortage • social change • Social Class • Soviet Union • Stockholm University • The Communist Manifesto • The Telling • Turkey in Turmoil • Voting • Westernization • Women • World War I • youth protest
• ISBN-10: 0-691-21549-9 / 0691215499
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-21549-5 / 9780691215495