"East West Mimesis" follows the plight of German-Jewish humanists
who escaped Nazi persecution by seeking exile in a Muslim-dominated
society. Kader Konuk asks why philologists like Erich Auerbach
found humanism at home in Istanbul at the very moment it was
banished from Europe. She challenges the notion of exile as
synonymous with intellectual isolation and shows the reciprocal
effects of German emigres on Turkey's humanist reform movement. By
making literary critical concepts productive for our understanding
of Turkish cultural history, the book provides a new approach to
the study of East-West relations.
Central to the book is Erich Auerbach's "Mimesis: The
Representation of Reality in Western Literature," written in
Istanbul after he fled Germany in 1936. Konuk draws on some of
Auerbach's key concepts--"figura" as a way of conceptualizing
history and "mimesis" as a means of representing reality--to show
how Istanbul shaped "Mimesis" and to understand Turkey's humanist
reform movement as a type of cultural mimesis.
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