Ralph J. Poole – författare

„Can the subaltern speak?“ fragt Gayatri Spivak in einem der Schlüsseltexte postkolonialer Theorie. Ihre Antwort darauf ist wenig optimistisch: Die „fremde“ Frau bleibe immer lediglich Repräsentierte und besitze als diese „Andere“ keine Stimme. Die AutorInnen untersuchen das Phänomen der Migration in seinen geschlechtsspezifischen Zusammenhängen aus interdisziplinärer Perspektive. Sie diskutieren die vielfältigen Verschränkungen von kultureller Differenz und Geschlechterdifferenz. Dabei werden Fragen der Intersektionalität ebenso beleuchtet wie die Entwicklung von multi- über inter- zu transkulturellen Perspektiven und die vielfältigen Zusammenhänge von Mobilität und Gender.

Before President Erdogan's repressive politics took hold, queer cultures were more visible than ever in Turkey. Queer Turkey offers a broad range of reflections on queer Turkish cultures within a transnational, Euro-American context. Based on his experience in Istanbul, Ralph J. Poole shares his impressions of queer desires between Muslim tradition and global pop, observes what goes on in the hamam, and wonders about Arabesk culture.The book features discussions of queer travel writers, poets, playwrights, and film directors. Their multifarious works manifest the subtle and subversive ways in which artists crisscross the cultural borders of East and West. With its many facets of Turkish-Euro-American cultural interactions, Queer Turkey outlines a kaleidoscope of transnational poetics.

In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, the American theater emerged as a crucial cultural space for debates around gender stereotypes, gendered conduct, sexual desire, the politics of intimacy and domesticity, female authorship, as well as the complex intersections of gender and other markers of cultural difference, such as race, ethnicity, socioeconomic class, age, or nation. This collection explores the role of gender in the formation of American theatrical culture in this period. It features essays on well-known early American dramatists such as Susanna Rowson or Judith Sargent Murray, but also sheds light on anonymous authors and more obscure theatrical practices.