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Chargement... Dare to Disappoint: Growing Up in Turkey (original 2015; édition 2015)par Özge Samancı (Auteur)
Information sur l'oeuvreDare to Disappoint: Growing Up in Turkey par Özge Samancı (2015)
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. As a child, Ozge Samanci was drawn to the sea. Her early hero being Jacques Cousteau. Her father wanted her to be an engineer and pushed her hard. Set on the Aegean coast, in Turkey this wonderful graphic memoir, details Ozge early life struggling against the system to become who she wanted to be, not what society demanded. Funny, warm and insightful. Ozge now teaches at Northwestern in Chicago. ( ) Ozge Samanci's graphic novel memoir tells the story of her growing up, going to school, and deciding what she wanted to do with her life. This was such a fun to read! I enjoyed the collage drawings, using stamps and repeating certain pieces of images throughout. I rooted for Ozge as she navigates her own ambitions of doing well in school like her sister, and struggles to gain her father's approval. The details of Turkish history and current events as they impacted Ozge and her family rounded out the story well. An enjoyable coming-of-age and finding-one's-way story. Özge Samancı was born in 1975 in Izmir, Turkey. Her memoir begins with her six-year-old self using binoculars to see her sister waving from school across the street. "School," Özge says, "was the place where you could wave to your mother and your sister, who were watching you with binoculars. I wanted to be on the other side of the binoculars." Her whole childhood was spent thus, trying to keep up with her smart and accomplished sister, who always seemed one step ahead, and to be in the limelight of her parent's approval. Always slightly off-kilter from the expectations of her family, teachers, and Ataturk (whose hagiographic presence in Turkey during the '80s was ubiquitous), Özge struggled to find her own path and dare to disappoint these expectations. The tone of the book, as well as the drawings, are funny and sweetly expressive. I was reminded of [Ramona the Brave], but life in Turkey was not as saccharine as American suburbia. I learned a bit about Turkey's ban on imports, educational practices, and political tensions, but without any explicit lessons. [Dare to Disappoint] was a fun book to read, and I enjoyed following Özge into college. She is currently an artist and assistant professor at Northwestern University in Chicago. Probably one of the most beautiful graphic novels I've ever seen--not that it's over-the-top like the Book of Kells or something, but because the artwork isn't bound by panels, is primarily black and white except for occasional splashes of color, and, mostly, because of Samanci's collage-like pages, which incorporate (images of) real objects and papers. It's also, of course, a fascinating account of life in Turkey and its education system. And Samanci's struggle to please her parents and find a dream to pursue are so relatable to me. I'm so happy that she found a career that (I hope) she enjoys, and a little bit jealous that she did find it in the end. I'll be keeping and treasuring this one. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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"As a child in Izmir, Turkey in the 1980 and 90s, Ozge Samanci watched as her country struggled between its traditional religious heritage and the new secular westernized world of brand-name products and television stars. In Ozge's own family, she struggled to figure out the place where she belonged, too. Her older sister was a perfect student, and her dad hoped Ozge would study hard, go to good schools, and become an engineer to find stability in their country's uncertain economic climate. But Ozge was a dreamer and wanted adventure. Could she be a scuba diver like Jacques Costeau? Or should she become a world-famous actress? This touching memoir shows how Ozge dared to overcome both her family and her country's expectations to find happiness by being an artist"-- Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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