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Before President Erdogan's repressive politics took hold, queer cultures were more visible than ever in Turkey. Queer Turkey offers a broad range of reflections on queer Turkish cultures within a transnational, Euro-American context. Based on his experience in Istanbul, Ralph J. Poole shares his impressions of queer desires between Muslim tradition and global pop, observes what goes on in the hamam, and wonders about Arabesk culture.
The book features discussions of queer travel writers, poets, playwrights, and film directors. Their multifarious works manifest the subtle and subversive ways in which artists crisscross the cultural borders of East and West. With its many facets of Turkish-Euro-American cultural interactions, Queer Turkey outlines a kaleidoscope of transnational poetics.
Frontmatter 1
Contents 5
Introduction 9
1. Istanbul: Queer Desires Between Muslim Tradition and Global Pop 29
2. Architecture of Seduction, or: What (Really) Goes On in the Hamam? 65
3. "But we are all androgynous:" James Baldwin's Staging America in Turkey 113
4. "Built for Europeans who came on the Orient Express:" Queer Desires of Extravagant Strangers in Sinan Ünel's Pera Palas 129
5. "The Wonder of Thy Beauty:" Bayard Taylor's Poems of the Orient as an Intermediary Between German Romanticism and American Gentility 163
6. Bastardized History: Elif Shafak's Transcultural Poetics 193
7. Precarious Masculinities in the New Turkish Cinema 217
8. Arabesk: Nomadic Tales, Oriental Beats, and Hybrid Looks 237