Power and victimization : the rhetoric of sociopolitical power and representations of victimhood in contemporary literature : proceedings of a symposium held by the Department of American Culture and Literature, Haliç University, Istanbul, 13-15 April 2005 / editor Oya Berk, Sırma Soran Gumpert.

Contributor(s): Berk, Oya [editor.] | Soran Gumpert, Sırma [editor.]Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Stuttgart, Germany : ibidem-Verlag, 2005Description: 272 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 3898215334 (paperback)Subject(s): Control (Psychology) in literature -- Congresses | Power (Social sciences) in literature -- Congresses | Victims in literature -- Congresses | Literature, Modern -- 20th century -- History and criticism -- CongressesLOC classification: PN56.C678 P69 2005Summary: These proceedings of the symposium 'The Rhetoric of Sociopolitical Power and Representations of Victimhood in Contemporary Literature,' conducted by the Department of American Culture and Literature at Haliç University, Istanbul, on 13-15 April 2005 contain discussions of power and victimization as represented in contemporary literatures in light of the leading questions and issues in contemporary literary criticism, the emphasis being on writing from the Anglophone world. The authors treated include Angela Carter, Colm Toibin, Alan Hollinghurst, Tony Harrison, Henry James, David Mamet, Anne Sexton, Philip Roth, Toni Morrison, Terry Tempest Williams, Margaret Atwood, Derek Walcott, J. M. Coetzee, Jean Anouilh, Thomas Mann, Ricardo Piglia, Luisa Valenzuela, Naguib Mahfouz, Kemal Yalçin, Orhan Pamuk, Kobo Abe.--Back cover.
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These proceedings of the symposium 'The Rhetoric of Sociopolitical Power and Representations of Victimhood in Contemporary Literature,' conducted by the Department of American Culture and Literature at Haliç University, Istanbul, on 13-15 April 2005 contain discussions of power and victimization as represented in contemporary literatures in light of the leading questions and issues in contemporary literary criticism, the emphasis being on writing from the Anglophone world. The authors treated include Angela Carter, Colm Toibin, Alan Hollinghurst, Tony Harrison, Henry James, David Mamet, Anne Sexton, Philip Roth, Toni Morrison, Terry Tempest Williams, Margaret Atwood, Derek Walcott, J. M. Coetzee, Jean Anouilh, Thomas Mann, Ricardo Piglia, Luisa Valenzuela, Naguib Mahfouz, Kemal Yalçin, Orhan Pamuk, Kobo Abe.--Back cover.