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 DISSERTATIONS AND M.A.THESIS ARTICLES BOOKS  REVIEWS  NEWS ON TURKISH AUTHORS AND LITERATURE



DISSERTATIONS AND M. A. THESIS:

Ahrends, Maike, "Kaza geçirmek: Having accidents in Life-Identity Constructions Between Cultures: The Prose Texts by Aysel Vzakın, Renan Demirkan, and Emine Sevgi Vzdamar (German text, Women Writers, Migration, Identity, Turkish-German)" PhD, The University of Michigan , 1999, 230 pp., AAT 9938388
Akman, Ayhan M., "Modernist National Identity and Its Demise: Polistics and Cartoons in Turkey (1930-Present)," PHD, The University of Chicago, 1999, 253 pp., AAT 9934021
Baskal, Zekeriya, "Ideology, intellectuals and the generation of '68 in the trilogy of Adalet Agaoglu : lying down to die, a wedding party and No.." Near Eatern Languages and Cultures. Thesis (M.A.)--Ohio State University, 1998, vii, 68 leaves. Acc. 40749305
Chin, Rita Chook-Kuan "Rewriting the 'Guest Worker': Turkish-German Artists and the Emergence of muliculturalism in the Federal Republic of Germany, 1961-1989," PhD, University of California, Berkeley , 1999, 298 pp., AAT 9931207
Ervin,-Ellen, "The Novels of Adalet Agaoglu: Narrative Complexity and Feminist Social Consciousness in Modern " Dissertation-Abstracts-International, Ann Arbor, MI (DAI). 1989 Apr., 49:10, 3022A-3023A
Fischer, Monika, "Intercultural Alterity or Borderline Experience: Minor Literatures of Germany and The United States(Almancilar, Chicana, Women Writers)", University of Oregon , 1997, 202 pp. AAT 9738705
Noyon,-Jennifer-Cherie, "Halit Ziya Usakligil's Hikaye (the Novel) and the Process of Modern Turkish Cultural Transformation" Dissertation-Abstracts-International, Ann Arbor, MI 1979, 40, 2690A-91A


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ARTICLES:

Al'kaeva, L. O. "Ince Memed," Edebiyat: The Journal of Middle Eastern Literatures 5:1-2 (1980): 69-82
Atis, Sarah Moment, "Sociology and the Literary Text in Turkey," Edebiyat: The Journal of Middle Eastern Literatures 1:1 (1987):116-127
Aytur, Necla, "Native Sons of the South: William Faulkner and Yasar Kemal," Edebiyat: The Journal of Middle Eastern Literatures 5:1-2 (1980): 161-171
Basgoz, Ilhan, "Yasar Kemal and Turkish Folk Literature," Edebiyat: The Journal of Middle Eastern Literatures 5:1-2 (1980): 37-47
Becka,-Jiri, "Turkish Literature in Czechoslovakia," Archiv Orientalni 52:2 (1984):167-89
Binyazar, Adnan, "The Yasar Kemal Phenomenon," Edebiyat: The Journal of Middle Eastern Literatures 5:1-2 (1980): 205-220
Blasing, Mutlu Konuk, "Translating Poetry: Texts and Contexts of Nazim Hikmet," Translation Review 5 (1980):43-45 [, Richardson, TX (TRev).]
Boratav, Pertev Naili, "Designs on Yasar Kemal's Yoruk Kilims," Edebiyat: The Journal of Middle Eastern Literatures 5:1-2 (1980): 23-36
Celnarova, X., "The Concept of Man in the Works of Orhan Kemal," in Galik M., Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on the Theoretical Problems of Asian and African Literatures (Bratislava : Lit. Inst. of the Slovak Acad. of Sciences, 1983):375-381.
Chmielowska, D., "The Image of the Turkish Village in Nevzat Ustun's Short Series," in Galik M., Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on the Theoretical Problems of Asian and African Literatures (Bratislava : Lit. Inst. of the Slovak Acad. of Sciences, 1983):363-370.
Des Pres, Terrence, "Poetry and Politics: The Example of Nazim Hikmet,"Parnassus: Poetry in Review 6:2 (1978):7-25
Dino, Guzin, "The Lords of Akchasaz, I: Murder in the Ironsmiths Market," Edebiyat: The Journal of Middle Eastern Literatures5:1-2 (1980): 95-99
Dudina, Ludmilla, "Aziz Nesin as a Person and a Writer," Soviet Literature 9 (426) (1983):155-157 [Moscow, Russia (SovL).]
Erol, Sibel (1992) "Feminism in Turkey". New Perspectives on Turkey 8: 109-121
Ervin, Ellen W. "Narrative Technique in the Fiction of Adalet Agaoglu" Edebiyat: The Journal of Middle Eastern Literatures 1:1 (1987):128-146
Evin, Ahmet O. "Seagull and the Fiction of Yasar Kemal," Edebiyat: The Journal of Middle Eastern Literatures5:1-2 (1980): 189-204
Feldman, Walter, "Time, memory and autobiography in The Clock-Setting Institute of Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar" Edebiyat NS 8:1 (1998):37-61.
Gokalp, Altan, "Yasar Kemal: From the Imaginary World of a People to an Epic of Reality," Edebiyat: The Journal of Middle Eastern Literatures5:1-2 (1980): 151-159
Goksu, Saime, Timms, Edward, "Nazim Hikmet: Poetry and Politics in Kemalist Turkey," in Timms-Edward (ed. & pref.); Collier-Peter (ed. & pref.); Williams-Raymond (introd.). Visions and Blueprints: Avant-Garde Culture and Radical Politics in Early Twentieth-Century Europe. (Manchester : Manchester UP, 1988): 177-192.
Goksu, Saime, Timms, Edward,Romantic Communist: The Life and Work of Nazim Hikmet (New York, NY : St. Martin's, 1999). [Yevtushenko,-Yevgeny (preface), xxiv, 367 pp.]
Gun, Guneli, "The Woman in the Darkroom: Contemporary Women Writers in Turkey," World Literature Today60:2 (Spring 1986): 275-279
Halman, Talat-Sait, "Modern Turkish Literature: Disorientation and Reorientation," Books-Abroad 46 (1972):226-31.
Halman, Talat Sait, "Turkish Literature," in Encyclopedia of world literature in the twentieth century by Flesichman (1967-1984):432-438. [skim]
Hickman, William C., "Traditional Themes in the Work of Yasar Kemal: Ince Memed," Edebiyat: The Journal of Middle Eastern Literatures 5:1-2 (1980): 55-68
Horrocks, David, "In Search of a Lost Past: A Reading of Emine Sevgi Özdamar's Novel 'Das Leben ist eine Karawanserai, hat Zwei Turen, aus einer kam Ich Rein aus der Anderen Ging Ich Raus'," in (Horrocks and Kolinsky 1996).
Horrocks, D. and Kolinsky, E., "Living and Writing in Germany: Emine Sevgi Özdamar in Conversation with David Horrocks and Eva Kolinsky," in (Horrocks and Kolinsky 1996).
Horrocks, D. and Krause, F., "'Black eye and his donkey': a Multicultural Experience Emine Sevgi Özdamar," (Horrocks and Kolinsky 1996).
Jacobson, Joseph S., "Three Stories by Aziz Nesin," Literature East and West19 (1975):168-79
Kandiyoti, Deniz (1990) "Ataerkil Oruntuler: Turk Toplumunda Erkek Egemenliginin Cozulmesine Yonelik Notlar." In Kadinin Bakis Acisindan 1980'ler Turkiye'sinde Kadinlar, ed. Sirin Tekeli, pp. 367-382. Istanbul: Iletisim.
Katsenelinboigen, Aron, "My Meeting with a Prominent Turkish Poet: Nazim Hikmet," Edebiyat: The Journal of Middle Eastern Literatures 4:2 (1979): 191-192.
Kemal, Thilda, "A Bibliography of Yasar Kemal's Major Fiction," Edebiyat: The Journal of Middle Eastern Literatures5:1-2 (1980): 221-234.
Key, Kerim Kemal, "Trends in Modern Turkish Literature," The Muslim World (October 1957):318-328.
Melikov, T., "On Turkish Poetry of the 1970s,"in Galik M., Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on the Theoretical Problems of Asian and African Literatures (Bratislava : Lit. Inst. of the Slovak Acad. of Sciences, 1983):356-362.
Oguzertem, Suha, "Upset saat, upset sihhats: a fatherless approach to The Clock-Setting Institute," Turkish Studies Association Bulletin 19:2 (1995):3-18.
Oguzertem, Suha, "An Adventure of Oral Narrative in Modern Turkish Literature," Journal-of-the-Hellenic-Diaspora, 18:1 (1992):41-54.
Ortayli, Ilber, "Some Notes on Modern Turkish Historical Drama," Wiener Zeitschrift fur die Kunde des Morgenlandes 76 (1986):221-231.
Otus-Baskett, Belma, "Yasar Kemal's Dream of Social Change: The Fable of the Hawk and the Goat-Beard," Edebiyat: The Journal of Middle Eastern Literatures 5:1-2 (1980): 87-93
Ozturk, M. Orhan,"Yasar Kemal's Social Psychology," Edebiyat: The Journal of Middle Eastern Literatures 5:1-2 (1980): 131-133
Paker, Saliha (1991) "Unmuffled Voices in the Shade and Beyond: Women's Writing in Turkish." In Textual Liberation: European Feminist Writing Century. ed. Helena Forsas Scott, pp. 270-300. New York and London: Routledge.
Paker, Saliha, "Translated European Literature in the Late Ottoman Literary Polysystem," New Comparison (Summer 1986):67-82.
Sertel, Sabiha "Reminiscences of Nazim Hikmet," New-Orient Bimonthly: A Journal-of the Modern and Ancient Cultures of Asia and Africa, Prague 1, Czechoslovakia 6 (1967):42-46.
Sonmez, Emel, "Turkish Women in Turkish Literature of the XIXth century," Hacettepe Bulletin of Social Sciences and Humanities 2:1-2 (June December 1970).
Sahin, Osman, "'Yasar Kemal Is Cukurova': Interviews with the Villagers of SarIbahce," Edebiyat: The Journal of Middle Eastern Literatures5:1-2 (1980): 49-54
Tatarly, I., "Some Remarks on the Rise and the Development of Socialist Realism in Turkish Literature,"in Galik M., Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on the Theoretical Problems of Asian and African Literatures (Bratislava : Lit. Inst. of the Slovak Acad. of Sciences, 1983):338-346.
Uturgauri, Svetlana, "Folklore and the Prose of Yasar Kemal," Edebiyat: The Journal of Middle Eastern Literatures 5:1-2 (1980): 135-150
Williams,-Raymond, "Yasar Kemal's Novels," Edebiyat: The Journal of Middle Eastern Literatures5:1-2 (1980): 83-85
Yakovleva, N., "Turkish Short Story and the Problem of a Writer's World View and His Social Orientation," in Galik M., Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on the Theoretical Problems of Asian and African Literatures (Bratislava : Lit. Inst. of the Slovak Acad. of Sciences, 1983):371-374


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BOOKS:

Atis, Sarah-Moment, Semantic Structuring in the Modern Turkish Short Story: An Analysis of The Dreams of Abdullah Efendi and Other Short Stories by Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar, (Leiden : Brill, 1983) ix, 205 pp.
Evin, Ahmet V. , Origins and Development of the Turkish novel, (Minneapolis: Bibliotheca Islamica, 1983) 223 pp.
Finn, Robert, The Early Turkish novel 1872-1900, (Istanbul: Isis Press, 1984) vii, 106, [4] pic..
Horrocks, D. and Kolinsky, E. ed.s, Turkish Culture in German Society Today, (Providence, RI: Barghahn Books 1996) xviii, 207 pp.
Kayacan Fergar, Feyyaz , ed. trans. Modern Turkish poetry with additional translations by Richard McKane ... [et al.], (Ware, Herts : Rockingham Press, 1992); 189 p. ; 21 cm.
Mardin, Yusuf, compiled and translated by, The Pocket Book of Twentieth Century Turkish Poetry, ([Ankara] : Ministry of Culture, 1990).
Silay, Kemal, edited by, An Anthology of Turkish Literature, edited by Kemal Silay (Bloomington, Ind. : The University, 1996).
In commemoration of Nazim Hikmet (1902- 1963). (London: Union of Socialist Artists, 1975). [v p.]
Modern Turkish Literature (New York, N.Y.: Turkish Information Office, 1950). [Turkey. Haberler Burosu; Turkey Today no.9; 11 p.]

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REVIEWS:

Halman, Talat Sait, "Fruits of literature/Nar: '96: A selection," World Literature Today 71:4 (Autumn 1997):859-860.
"Looking over the fence," The New Life by Orhan Pamuk World Literature Today (1995).
"Memed, My Hawk" by Yasar Kemal, Masterplots II (1988).
Kulin, Ayse, "Genis zamanlar" (Istanbul: Remzi, 1998) 134 pp. reviewed by Sevda Caliskan in World Literature Today (Summer 1998):680.
"The Black Book," by Orhan Pamuk Nation (03/27/95)
"The Black Book," New Statesman & Society (07/07/95).
"The Blind Cat Black and Orthodoxies," Ece Ayhan (b. 1931) 01/01/98
"The New Life by Orhan Pamuk," Observer (08/16/98).
"The New Life, by Orhan Pamuk (Faber & Faber, (pounds) 6.99 in UK)," Irish Times (10/03/98).
"The New Life," by Orhan Pamuk Review of Contemporary Fiction (09/22/98).
"The New Life," by Orhan PamukNation (04/07/97).
"The New Life," Magill Book Review by Orhan Pamuk (01/01/98).
"The New Life," New Statesman (10/31/97)
"The week in Reviews: Books: `The West has eaten our underpants' Adam Mars-Jones ..." (Yeni Hayat by Orhan Pamuk) Observer (10/05/97).
"The White Castle," by Orhan Pamuk, Magill Book Review (11/01/91) "The Wind from the Plain" by Yasar Kemal, Cyclopedia of Literary Characters (1990)
"Yashar Kemal" Cyclopedia of World Authors (1989) World Literature Today (01/01/98); Nation (07/07/97).

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NEWS ON TURKISH AUTHORS AND LITERATURE:

Blasing, Mutlu Konuk, "Translating Poetry: Texts and Contexts of Nazim Hikmet," Translation Review 5 (1980):43-45 [, Richardson, TX (TRev).]
Can, Hasan (tr.), "Petition by 1,383 Intellectuals to the President of Turkey," Index on Censorship 13:5 (Oct. 1984):5-7, 10 [London, England (IonC)]
Can, Hasan, "Turkish Writers on Trial," Index on Censorship 13:3 (Oct. 1884): 3-4, 10 [London, England (IonC)]
Des Pres, Terrence, "Poetry and Politics: The Example of Nazim Hikmet," Parnassus: Poetry in Review 6:2 (1978):7-25
Jacobson, Joseph S., "Three Stories by Aziz Nesin," Literature East and West 19 (1975):168-79
Nesin, Aziz, "Hadje," Index on Censorship 13:7 (Oct. 1984): 7-8, 10 [London, England (IonC)]
"Turkish writers call for resolution of Kurdish issue" Agencia EFE (10/11/99)
"Turkey - Intellectuals make case for Kurdish (Oct 22/NYT)" Periscope: Daily Defense News Capsules (10/01/99)
"Rights-Turkey: Writers and artists launch campaign for Kurdistan" Inter Press Service (10/12/99)
"People in the News: Arthur Miller supports imprisoned novelist Yasar," Las Vegas Review-Journal (04/06/96).
"Yasar Kemal," The Times (London) (July 30, 1959).
Yashar Kemal, "Literature, Democracy, and Peace: The 1997 Peace Prize of the German Book Trade: Acceptance Speech," trans. by Talat Sait Halman World Literature Today 72:1 (Winter 1998):14-17.
Kemal, Yasar, "The Dark Cloud over Turkey," Index on Censorship 9LH, 24:1 (Jan-Feb 1995): 141-47
Freely, Maureen, "Talking Turkey Maureen Freely meets the brilliant Istanbul-born novelist Orhan Pamuk" Observer
"Culture-Turkey: Book Fair Dedicated To Prisoners Of Conscience," Inter Press Service (11/06/97).

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