Mapping Cultural Identities and Intersections

Imagological Readings

Edited By: Mustafa Kirca

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This book applies imagology to film, art, and narratives to explore identity construction. Through interdisciplinary approaches, it examines cultural and ethnic identities—the self and the other—with a focus on literary works as they are translated from one culture to another.

This volume investigates identity discourses and self-constructions/de-constructions in various texts through imagological readings of films, narratives, and art works, examining different layers of cultural identities, on the one hand, and measuring the literary reception of ethnic identity constitution to reveal both the self and hetero images, on the other. The book features theoretical and analytical approaches with insights borrowed from multiple disciplines, and mainly focuses on the application of imagological perspectives in the fields of literature and translation, and specifically in literary works “carried over” from one culture to another. It will be of interest for scholars and researchers working in the fields of literature, translation, cultural studies, and imagology, as well as for students studying in these fields.

Onorina Botezat is Director of the Center for Linguistic and Intercultural Research and Associate Professor at Dimitrie Cantemir Christian University, Romania. Her main fields of research are imagological and cultural studies and legal terminology. She is the author of Dictionary of Legal Terms, Romanian-English and English-Romanian (2011) and The Image of the Foreigner in the National Literature (2016), and editor of The Annals of “Dimitrie Cantemir” Christian University Linguistics, Literature and Methodology of Teaching.

Mustafa Kirca is Assistant Professor of English Literature in the Department of Translation and Interpreting Studies at Çankaya University, Turkey. His research focuses on postmodernist fiction, postcolonialism, parodic re-writing, and metafiction in the contemporary novel. He is the co-editor of Iris Murdoch and Her Work: Critical Essays (2010), B/Orders Unbound: Marginality, Ethnicity and Identity in Literatures (2017), Multicultural Narratives: Traces and Perspectives (2018).