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Nurdan Gurbilek
Nurdan GürbIlek, one of the foremost cultural critics in Turkey, is the author of Living in a Shop Window (1992), an analysis of the cultural dynamics of the 1980s in Turkey. Her other publications...view moreNurdan GürbIlek, one of the foremost cultural critics in Turkey, is the author of Living in a Shop Window (1992), an analysis of the cultural dynamics of the 1980s in Turkey. Her other publications include Shifting Shadow (1995) and Homework (1999), a collection of essays on modern Turkish writers. She is also the author of Bad Boy Turk (2001), an analysis of some of the significant images and tropes in modern Turkish literature and popular culture, and of Orient Lost (2004), which explores the sexual anxieties accompanying the Ottoman-Turkish literary modernization. Her last book, The Language of the Wronged (2008), is a collection of essays on Dostoevsky's "underground tragedy" and its counterparts in modern Turkish literature.view less