Nilgun Anadolu Okur
Biographic Data
| ID | 653600 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nilgun Anadolu Okur |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nilgun Anadolu |
| FAMILY NAME | Okur |
| SIGNATURE | OKUR N A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Temple University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Out of “Borrowed Space”: Multi-Culturalist Discourse and Historiography in the Twenty-First Century
İlk sayısını Haziran 2011'de çıkaran İnsan & Toplum Dergisi, yılda iki kez yayımlanan, hem Türkçe hem de İngilizce yazılara yer veren hakemli bir dergidir. İnsan & Toplum, akademik yayın dünyasında görülen iki temel eksikliği duyumsayarak yola çıktı. Bunlardan biri, kendi disipliner sınırlarına hapsolmuş akademyanın insan ve toplumu birbirinden izole ederek ayrıştırarak çalışma yapmasının bir teamül haline gelmiş olmasıdır. İkincisi de, disiplinl…
Underground Railroad in Philadelphia, 1830-1860
Philadelphia, the City of Brotherly Love, has always been recognized as the meeting ground in the nation's incessant quest for racial equality, freedom, and liberation. A natural junction on the Underground Railroad, the city was also known as an abolitionist center and had a large free Black community. From 1830 to 1860, the city witnessed unsurpassed activity as a great rail center and especially as a busy port for ships traveling northward fro…
Afrocentricity as a Generative Idea in the Study of African American Drama
Molefi Kete Asante has established a theoretical perspective that recognizes the centrality of African ideals and ideas as starting places for the analysis and synthesis of African phenomenon (Asante, 1987). Using the term Afrocentricity, Asante presents it as a critical theory and method which serves as a generative concept. First introduced in his now classic book, Afrocentricity, the theory has gained prominence in all academic circles. By 198…
Drama as Social Criticism: Assessing Baraka's Great Goodness of Life
Amiri Baraka remains a major aesthetic force in African-American drama. Baraka's dramatic work has continued unabated, and his significance as a writer is undiminished by time and his influence on other writers appears as strong as ever. Yet Baraka's treatment of blackness, that is, the idea of Africanness in his African-American characters, has never been fully discussed. This is probably due to Baraka's powerful dramatic representation of the c…
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Drama as Social Criticism: Assessing Baraka's Great Goodness of Life
Amiri Baraka remains a major aesthetic force in African-American drama. Baraka's dramatic work has continued unabated, and his significance as a writer is undiminished by time and his influence on other writers appears as strong as ever. Yet Baraka's treatment of blackness, that is, the idea of Africanness in his African-American characters, has never been fully discussed. This is probably due to Baraka's powerful dramatic representation of the c…
Afrocentricity as a Generative Idea in the Study of African American Drama
Molefi Kete Asante has established a theoretical perspective that recognizes the centrality of African ideals and ideas as starting places for the analysis and synthesis of African phenomenon (Asante, 1987). Using the term Afrocentricity, Asante presents it as a critical theory and method which serves as a generative concept. First introduced in his now classic book, Afrocentricity, the theory has gained prominence in all academic circles. By 198…
Underground Railroad in Philadelphia, 1830-1860
Philadelphia, the City of Brotherly Love, has always been recognized as the meeting ground in the nation's incessant quest for racial equality, freedom, and liberation. A natural junction on the Underground Railroad, the city was also known as an abolitionist center and had a large free Black community. From 1830 to 1860, the city witnessed unsurpassed activity as a great rail center and especially as a busy port for ships traveling northward fro…
Out of “Borrowed Space”: Multi-Culturalist Discourse and Historiography in the Twenty-First Century
İlk sayısını Haziran 2011'de çıkaran İnsan & Toplum Dergisi, yılda iki kez yayımlanan, hem Türkçe hem de İngilizce yazılara yer veren hakemli bir dergidir. İnsan & Toplum, akademik yayın dünyasında görülen iki temel eksikliği duyumsayarak yola çıktı. Bunlardan biri, kendi disipliner sınırlarına hapsolmuş akademyanın insan ve toplumu birbirinden izole ederek ayrıştırarak çalışma yapmasının bir teamül haline gelmiş olmasıdır. İkincisi de, disiplinl…
Sociology (4 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · History (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Caribbean history, culture, and politics (2 works) · Drama (2 works)