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Title: Images of Turkey in Western Literature by Kamil Aydn, Susan Bassnett, Kamil Aydin ISBN: 0-906719-29-1 Publisher: The Eothen Press Pub. Date: July, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95

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Average Customer Rating: 5 (4 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: It is really such a good guide book for people living around
Comment: Well, first of all ,i really congratulate Mr.Aydin bcoz of his success.When you start reading this book you can start to a journey in time,coz you can absolutely witness some flashings of the Turkish world which were misunderstood by the world,well at least by europeans,coz Americans already dunno much about Turkey, then you can witness the reflection of misunderstanding of occidental culture's researches on Turkey and the Turks.Coz this outstanding book will be your guide to see the wrongs and the rights about Turks.In the early 20s, The Sickman of Europe stood up and fight for his natural rights to get them back ,even though the mass media misreflected something about Turks and they always get confused between Turks and The Arabs.You can also witness the difference between The Turks and The Arabs.I accept myself lucky ,coz i read this book and im honoured of having this masterpiece.If i were you, i never get confused and click on buy icon to get a masterpiece and reach this honour as we did.Thank You Mr. Aydin for this outstanding masterpiece at heart and also hope you continue your success in literature with other research books and literary books...Finally, all you have to do is to hit the buy button and enjoy yourself while reading this guide book!!!!Really really it is!!!!!!!!

Rating: 5
Summary: you have never seen such a work up to now !
Comment: Elmas Sahin from Turkey,Erzurum ... I suggest that you should read this book.Because you will find a lot of things about Turks and Turkish culture, costumes, beliefs and manners. You can also read ''The Images of Turkey in Western Literarure'' written by Assoc.Prof. Kamil Aydin in order to learn how Turkish lands becomes a focus of curiousity for Occidental people. Mr. Aydin points out some significant passages in many English or the other Europeans novelists,playwrights or travel writers such as Marlow,Shakespeare,Nerval, Faucoult, Kipling introducing Turkish or Islamic figures in their works. Most of the writers handle Turks from negatif points of wiev in many examples given by Aydin. Aydin foceses on 20 th century images of Turkey in his work, especially in the west popular fiction, travel writings, and motion pictures.He underlines how a non-western culture is rperesented by a western culture with very interesting examples such as Midnight Express, Lustfull Turk. On the other hand Mr. Aydin shows us some important passages in Orientalism written by Edward Said . As Said writes in his book ,Orientalism Mr Aydin also writes about Orientalist approaches related to Turks.But Aydin's book is quite different from Said's work. Said only tells about Arabic and Islamic culture handled by English French and American imperialist thoughts. Whereas Aydin draws attention to Turkish images reflecting in the Orient (West). Shortly you should read this work as soon as possible. Why? Because you will find in this book very more things than you will never think about Turks or real Rurkish identity, Turkish Culture or Turkish way of life .

Rating: 5
Summary: An Excellent Read
Comment: Kamil Aydin wrote a very informative book on images of Turkey and Turkish people in Western literature predominantly focusing on stories and fiction written in English. Aydin draws our attention to a bulk of literary work which portrays Turkish people, history, culture and customs to their readers. This book shows how Turkish identity is constructed in the images of western writers in different periods of history. The author successfuly demonstrate the effects of social, cultural, political and religious factors in the portrayal of Turkey and Turkish culture throughout the centuries. This is an excellent book for students of social and cultural history as well as comparative literature. I recommend it strongly.

Dr. Talip Kucukcan, Istanbul, Turkey