“The title of Salman Rushdie’s famous essay, which later formed the title of a book of essays by him, ‘Imaginary Homelands’, is based on one side of a common and age-old perception of home: we make it in the mind or the imagination. Ordinary language has versions of it too: home is where the heart is, I don’t feel at home in my own town/country, this is my spiritual home, etc. On the other hand, there is a physical aspect to home too – ranging from walls associated with ancestral property or parents or some other such inheritance, and extended, through the imagining of communities, as Benedict Andersen would phrase it, sometimes to a land, a country, even a nation. To say that any one of these broad definitions of home is wrong is to cut off large sections of humankind: those who do not belong where they live or those who cannot return to where they used to live. To feel at home and to live at home are both valid cravings, and though they do not necessarily overlap, neither can be dismissed in favour of the other” Tabish Khair

Home in Western Language is a compilation of selected papers presented at the 7th BAKEA Symposium, 2021. In the time of the pandemic, when home has acquired more meanings, this book reads the idea of home and explores its connotations as presented in different genres and ages of English, American, French and literatures.

THE translations given in this volume, with the exception of the stormscene from Tolstoy in the First Lecture, are my own. The reader will please bear in mind that these Lectures, printed here exactly as delivered, were written with a view to addressing the ear as well as the eye, otherwise the book would have been entirely different from what it now is. When delivering the Sixth Lecture, I read extracts from Tolstoy’s “My Religion” and “What to Do,” illustrating every position of his I there commend; but for reasons it is needless to state, I omit them in the book. I can only hope that the reader will all the more readily go to the books themselves.

1889. P. GRAFTON, MASS., 1 July, 1889.

Hatay, uzun bir tarihsel süreçte çok sayıda medeniyete ev sahipliği yapmış bir şehirdir. Bundan dolayı kültürel anlamda oldukça zengin bir birikime sahiptir. Bu birikim sonucunda topluma ait gelenek, görenek ve toplumsal uygulamaların da oldukça çeşitli ve fazla sayıda olduğu görülmektedir.

Prof. Dr. Bülent ARI tarafından kaleme alınmış olan “Hatay Halk Kültürü Üzerine Araştırmalar” kitabı, Hatay halk kültürüne ait unsurları ve şehrin kültürel birikimini titizlikle ele almıştır. Hatay’da doğum, evlenme ve ölüm gibi geçiş dönemlerine ait uygulamalar, gündelik yaşamdan kesitler; Hatay halk edebiyatına ait örnekler, Hatay’da ön plana çıkan el sanatları, bölgesel halk oyunlarına ait unsurlar, Hatay’daki geleneksel çocuk oyunları, bölgeye ait halk hekimliği uygulamaları, Hatay mutfağına ait yemekler ve yemek kültürü ile bölgede kullanılan lakapların derlendiği bilgilerden oluşan kültürel özelliklere bu kitapta yer verilmiştir.

Hatay halk kültürüne ait unsurların tanıtılması ve bu unsurların gelecek kuşaklara aktarılmasına katkı sağlayacak nitelikteki bu kitap; Hatay halk kültürüne ait yapılacak olan sonraki çalışmalara da kaynaklık edici ve yol gösterici bir mahiyete sahiptir.