The Provincial and The Postcolonial in Cultural Texts fro...
Özselçuk, Evren This book explores Turkey¿s complicated relationship to modernity and its status within the new global order by tracing the ambivalent ways in which tära (the provinces) is constituted in contemporary Turkish cinema and literature. Connoting much more than its immediate spatial meaning as those places outside of the center(s), tära is a way of naming what modernity decries as spatial peripherality, temporal belatedness, and cultural backwardne...