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Excavating memory : Bilge Karasu's Istanbul and Walter Benjamin's Berlin /
"This study moves the acclaimed Turkish fiction writer Bilge Karasu (1930-1995) into a new critical arena by examining his poetics of memory, as laid out in his narratives on Istanbul's Beyoğlu, once a cosmopolitan neighborhood called Pera. Karasu established his fame in literary criticis...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Boston :
Academic Studies Press,
2020.
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| Series: | Ottoman and Turkish studies
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Beginnings: Reading Memory
- 2. From Berlin's Old West to Istanbul's Beyoğlu: Narratives of Memory, Narratives of Lost Topographies
- 3. Incompleteness as Anti-Autobiography: The Production and Publication Histories of Benjamin's and Karasu's Memory Narratives
- 4. Bilge Karasu in Historical Context: Identity Formation in the Shadow of "Turkification"
- 5. Forgetting, Remembering, and the Workings of Collective Memory: Survival and the Retrieval of Memory Traces
- 6. "Dialectical Images" in Beyoğlu's Black Waters: The Photograph as Testimony
- 7. Remembering as Distortion: Visual and Aural Traces of Alterity
- 8. Spatiality as the Inscription of the Past
- 9. Crazy Meryem as the Saint of Beyoğlu's Marginalized: Toward a Final Reading of Difference
- Conclusion
- Addendum: Biographical Notes on Bilge Karasu
- References
- Index