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Excavating Memory : Bilge Karasu’s Istanbul and Walter Benjamin’s Berlin / Ülker Gökberk.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Ottoman and Turkish StudiesPublisher: Boston, MA : Academic Studies Press, [2020]Copyright date: ©2020Description: 1 online resource (288 p.)Content type:
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  • 9781644694435
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 894/.3533 23/eng/20230216
LOC classification:
  • PL248.K33 Z64 2020
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  • online - DeGruyter
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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
Summary: 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 criticism as an experimental modernist, but while themes such as sexuality, gender, and oppression have received critical attention, an essential tenet of Karasu’s oeuvre, the evocation of ethno-cultural identity, has remained unexplored: Excavating Memory brings to light this dimension. Through his non-referential and ambiguous renderings of memory, Karasu gives in his Beyoğlu narratives unique expression to ethno-cultural difference in Turkish literature, and lets through his own repressed minority identity. By using Walter Benjamin’s autobiographical work as a heuristic premise for illuminating Karasu, Gökberk establishes an innovative intercultural framework, which brings into dialogue two representative writers of the twentieth century over temporal and spatial distances.
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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

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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 criticism as an experimental modernist, but while themes such as sexuality, gender, and oppression have received critical attention, an essential tenet of Karasu’s oeuvre, the evocation of ethno-cultural identity, has remained unexplored: Excavating Memory brings to light this dimension. Through his non-referential and ambiguous renderings of memory, Karasu gives in his Beyoğlu narratives unique expression to ethno-cultural difference in Turkish literature, and lets through his own repressed minority identity. By using Walter Benjamin’s autobiographical work as a heuristic premise for illuminating Karasu, Gökberk establishes an innovative intercultural framework, which brings into dialogue two representative writers of the twentieth century over temporal and spatial distances.

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