JAST 48: Spring 2018

Published in spring 2018, the 48th issue of the Journal of American Studies of Turkey covers literature, film, and gender politics. Duygu Beste Başer writes about the backlash against second-wave feminism in Wendy Wasserstein’s play An American Daughter. Emine Geçgil looks at the struggles of working women in early 1900s New York through Dorothy Richardson’s book The Long Day. Shifting to poetry, Ibis Gómez-Vega analyzes how nature is censored in Amy Newman’s work, while Şenol Bezci breaks down the narrative structure of The Ballad of the Sad Café. Susan Savage Lee compares the conflicting representations of Native Americans in the films Broken Arrow and The Searchers. The issue ends with two book reviews.