Collisions, Deflections, and Conjunctions: The Representations of Turks and Moors in Italian Folktales

ISBN-13: 9783631854761 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 94 str.

Askin Celikkol

Opis

This book studies the representations of Turks and Moors in Italian folktales. It offers an interdisciplinary frame of analysis that approaches the issue of Otherness from historical and literary contexts and addresses the stories and histories of enmity, captivity, exile, death, love, and reunion.

Spis treści

A survey of folklore theories - Turks in Italian folktales - Moors in Italian folktales

O autorze

Askin Çelikkol teaches and researches in the areas of American literature, comparative literature, and cultural studies in the Department of Western Languages and Literatures, Istanbul University. His research interests include African American literature, American political history, Early Modern English, and Italian Renaissance.