JAST 7: Spring 1998

Published in Spring 1998, the seventh issue of the Journal of American Studies of Turkey broadens the discourse on transnational encounters and identity. Embracing a global perspective, it examines immigrant experiences, gender politics, and narrative structures. Contributors explore these intersections through diverse frameworks. Dina Iordanova analyzes Eastern European immigrant experiences in Kolyo Nikolov’s writings, while Timothy Weiss investigates Paul Bowles’s expatriate literature. Jopi Nyman discusses identity in Elmore Leonard’s Bandits, and Paul McDonald analyzes masculinity and language in David Mamet and Philip Roth. Addressing aesthetics and history, Deniz Tarba Ceylan dissects William Faulkner’s blurred narration, Mel Kenne contributes original poetry, and Leo J. Mahoney reviews James Adams’s modern espionage history.